A High Strung Biker

Again after coffee at Geurilla Cafe, and laundry, we bebopped out to San Francisco. We hopped on the “F” streetcar and here in front of the Market Street Cinema (Link NSFW) which should be spelled sin-ema apparently. I guess we will review that on another trip. 😉
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Then we were on our way to the Castro District. they even seem to have their own community website. We wandered about, in what would soon become rain. Got some local shots.
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Stopped in at the HRC shop along Castro, yes even I needed a warm layer, to go with my shorts and t-shirt. I wanted to get something that had Castro on it anyway.
We stopped at Nirvana on Castro, a Vegan friendly place. I had a marvelous dish called Braised Peppercorn it was fantabulous. The starter we split was called Bodius Lettuce Cups, it was a Lettuce Wrap but a little spicey for Steve so I got most of it, Yahoo!!! Sorry Steve. We also split a Mango Mai Tai also fabulous.
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We hopped back on the “F” headed for the Civic Center BART station that had disgorged us here in SF. For the light rail ride back to Berkeley, we should get one of these. One that goes more then a mile or three.
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I am extremely VERY VERY backed up on photos, I will get them up over the weekend. Dog willing of course.

Well today was a light day. A bright sun shine filled day. We had a late start and headed out for coffee from Guerilla Cafe in Berkeley.

We then hopped on the AC Transit #9, that takes you out to the Berkeley Marina and a rather long pier. I had a dog at the Eat and Run down at the start of the pier.

Hopping back on the #9 and jumping off for lunch at the Lane Splitter Pub & Pizza also in Berkeley. We had a marvelous Vegan Pizza with a vegan ricotta cheese that they make themselves and some good brews.

I found out looking at the site that some of the buses that AC Transit uses are Hydrogen, three of them at this writing. Also I mentioned the ZAP Zebra, ZAP is the original importer and Americanizer of the SMART Car, from Daimler Chrysler. ZAP distributes a number of high efficiency and zero emission vehicles. And back home I-5 Motors in Fife handle the ZAP cars last I checked. Check them out.

This was a dismal morning, raining quite a bit for this area. We stayed in mostly, Steve did laundry while I futzed with an issue on my blog.

We ended up running out to Alameda to a bank to do some emergency banking. That is the closest ATM I could deposit at about 9 miles away. Took a long time by bus going out there. While in Alameda I saw a Zebra in the wild. After missing one on the move I managed to get this pic of a Zebra lazing on the side of the street near O’Connell Electric Vehicles.

Zap Zebra
We hopped on BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) coming back and made much better time. We hopped off at the Ashby station and wandered over to the Berkeley farmers market for Flaco’s Unique Vegatarian Mexican Food. The market moves each of the 3 days during the week, apparently these guys are at all three now.

We started out kind of late. We took a short trip for cash and some coffee at Berkely Espresso. This morning we saw a Jedi Master mailbox and I finally got a shot of one of these red squirrels I have been seeing here.

Also saw a GOcar down on the Embarcadaro along the waterfront.

We rode a trolley to get to the based of Telegraph hill.

We climbed the Filbert Steps looking for the Wild Parrots of Telegraph hill they dogged us.

Then we went knocking around SF including the red light district (link NSFW).

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We started with walk about Berkeley to Indian Rock park. A great view from up there.

Cool tunnel and stairs. Heading up to Indian Rock…

Indian Rock from the backside.

More Indian Rock.

A little bit of the view from Indian Rock.

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Then we showered and headed off to our favorite brunch at Fellini a magnificent vegan friendly restaurant. This is not even a vegatarian place.

Cool gate.

Whoo Hoo, time for Brunch. Our favorite Fellini. Not Vegan but VERY Vegan friendly.

This balcony is on Serendipity Books. Pretty cool.

California Typewriter. How many kids today won’t know what one even was.

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Then we headed of to Takara Sake Tasting Room and Museum. This was wonderful and the women they have selling this stuff are pros. They wangled almost $100 with shipping home from me. Steve got hit for even more. They are really good at what they do.

Whoo Hoo! Sake tasting time!!!

A big barrel. Called a Motooke, Moto Tub.

This adorned the roof of a sake-making building.

The cute and charming sake pushers. They know how to sell this stuff.

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And finally stumbling home.

I like this place… Bicycles have all the fun.

Adorable kitty.

I love the sign for this store. Beta would love to go exploring like the kitty on the right.

Cool bike, an early attempt at making them comfortable to ride.

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