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| My old friends, Mike and Susan, from Mensa help sponsor a get together (called an RG or Regional Gathering) in the San Francisco bay area over Thanksgiving weekend. I had visited the previous so you can find pictures of them and their house. The RG was held in San Francisco proper at the Holiday Inn shown here. There are not many cable car lines in San Francisco now, but one of them runs right by the Holiday Inn (shown here). The RG does not formally start until Friday, but on Thanksgiving they get together at a very nice restaurant McCormick & Kuleto's Seafood Restaurant. It is shown above on the right, second floor along the right just beyond the refurbished Ghiradelli Chocolate factory (not a factory anymore, but they do sell loads of chocolate in the square just behind those buildings). It has a really nice view of the bay (below). They had a wonderful atmosphere, great food, and reasonable prices (and were open on Thanksgiving). |
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| Susan and Mike spent much of Friday preparing for the RG so I saw the sights. THe entrance to Chinatown is shown above on the right. One of the places I walked to was Coit Tower shown here. It was built during the depression and has some impressive views one of which is shown below on the right. I was also surprised that the cable cars stop in the middle of the road for people to get on and off as shown below on the left. Of course that makes sense if you think of the effort of starting in the middle of the hill. The hills were often quite steep with the one here being pne of the steeper. In a picture it does not look all that steep, only a 30% grade or so, but if you walk up it it feels like 45% (normal stairs are often about 40%). |
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| The picture above on the left is from the Coit Tower (shown here) and if of the downtown San Francisco (to the right) and the bridge to Oakland. |
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| Above on the left is a view from the Coit Tower (shown here) of the downtown area. On the right is the Golden Gate Bridge. |
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