Day 13, 14: Rice A Roni

So we were sad to see Big Sur go of course. But not so sad to get back on California One -- the drive up the rest of the Central CA coast was beautiful. We stopped for a bit in Santa Cruz to check out a sweet music shop, and managed to get into San Fran at rush hour. Not too bad though. Our hotel here is a nice enough old place.... but the surrounding area.... well maybe we'll skip the Tenderloin neighborhood next time we're in town. We grabbed some awesome Chinese food close by - a shoutout to Embo and Ted for giving some cool recs. After getting kicked out of a piano showroom, we crashed an Apple Developers party (not joking) and later wandered over to Union Square in search of kicks.

This morning, after eating some cornflakes and oatmeal out of heineken cups (still not joking) we hopped on a cable car and headed towards Fisherman's Wharf. Man I love those cable cars. Beck and I tried to high-five the passengers of one coming towards us on the other side of the street - no dice. I bought a 1 1/2 pound roll of sourdough - oh man it was a lot of bread. No joke at all. Met up with Andy Bree and Courtney Schleinkoffer, two of Sean's friends from UArts, spent some cool time with them by the water, Andy was Sean's roommate and played HS baseball with Nick, my roommate! Crazy. Saw some sea lions hanging out by Pier 39, a slightly bathetic addendum to our sighting two days ago, sad face, but got SUNDAES FROM GHIARDELLI SQUARE oh yes. You don't understand, these guys are ice cream naysayers, this was the first time I had legitimate ice cream in a while and man it was good. Next, we headed over to the Haight-Ashbury section of town and hippied out for a while. Don't really remember the next five hours, just kidding parents, we headed out to an Oakland A's game and cheered on a semi-depressing franchise but had a great time because well, the hot dogs were only $1. Tom had 6. We tried to stop him, honest.

That's all folks ! One more drive up the highway at the edge of the country and we're out of this state.

Goodnight from old brown Frisco,

Paradise