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Th’road into Winter

Mike — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:13:44 +0000

Spotted this as I planned my escape route from Denver into the Rockies for next week….

Google Maps image taken in two seasons

The Walk What I Took

Mike — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:04:15 +0000

Took a gentle stroll around bits of SF I hadn’t seen today, just for the sheer hell of it. After the jump, more detail.

Took me about 4 hours, so a very leisurely stroll — until you consider the additional vertical distance involved. I’m on the 6th floor of the Carlton, and Washington St. is pretty much at eye level….

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San Francisco (without enough hair for flowers)

Mike — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:19:11 +0000

Discoveries!

World Traveller isn’t that bad
10.50 is still a lot of hours on a plane
It is possible to get sunburnt in October (I suppose this is the whole point of California, but somehow missed it before)

The hotel room has small vignettes of life somewhere (I think) South American and crushingly poor — I’m not sure whether this is the interior decoration equivalent of a Freudian slip…. (“Oh, me, this place is dreadful and Spartan… but it could be so much worse!”)

In the bathroom there’s a shot of a 900-year-old woman doing that L’Oreal move with water from a mountain stream. Perfect ad-antidote.

(Obligatory photoset, excluding the Peruvians, is at Flickr)