February 22, 2015
Miles: 4756
Today has been a long but good day!!
We started out on the road to San Francisco and let me tell you, central California is BEAUTIFUL!! Too bad no one seems to know how to be courteous nor how to drive. It's a bit ridiculous!
So we drove to the north side of the Bay so we could take 101 South across Golden Gate Bridge. I took a few pictures from the look out cos DAMN was it spectacular!!
We finally figured out how to cross the bridge into San Francisco downtown. I have never been so turned around in my life. Sad thing was I could guesstimate where everything was, and mostly accurately but I couldn't necessarily figure out how to get there. It definitely doesn't help to have a passenger that's a back seat driver! Sheesh!!
DQ decided since we haven't really gotten Grumpy much seafood, we should splurge and go eat on Fisherman's Wharf. So we park next to a Bentley (holy crap!!) (my fifth one since we've gotten here!!) and go into The Franciscan Crab Restaurant. Lunch is a pretty big affair. We each ordered appetizers and then shared this giant skillet of crab and shrimp. I can honestly say now I have finally had Dungeness crab AND cracked my own crab! (It was interesting to say the least... The very least!)
I'll be honest I wasn't super impressed with the food, especially for what we were paying, but it was a nice afternoon and we did sit right on the water. Most of my meal was spent looking at the ships and Alcatraz.
After lunch, DQ and I wanted to see if we could find some true San Franciscan icons. We drove around til we found Chinatown and then went in search of Lombard Street. Yes, Lombard is quite easy to find if you look at a map, however, we were looking for the. Most iconic part of Lombard. There is this short section, literally only a block long, that is sooo steep that they have built a labyrinth of sorts to drive down it. It is illegal to bicycle, skate, or walk down this section. You may only drive down or take the stairs lining either side. It was equally awesome and terrifying! Even in the big truck, we made it down safely. People kept stopping to take pictures of us navigating this drive. I wish DQ could take decent pictures or I'd show y'all just how it looked from the cab. (California has strict rules about drivers touching their phones, thus you do not get pictures from the road anymore, even if I was using a piece of equipment designed to help me be safer... I don't want to risk a ticket not be disrespectful to the CA laws.). Either way, if you ever get the chance to drive or ride around San Francisco, Lombard and Hyde is where you want to start!! Oh and at the bottom of the curves, if you keep going to Columbus you are likely to see the "jump on and off" trolley car (which of course we didn't get a picture of either.... le sigh).
Our adventure to SFO ended much how it began, a bridge and a long drive back. But it was definitely worth the drive to see all those historic sections of one of the biggest western hubs.
I'm loving CALIFORNIA more and more.
Oscars tonight. So originally, my plan had been to beg a friend to get me passes to the red carpet in Los Angeles, but as we are up here, that didn't happen. But we did get home in time for me to catch some of the Oscars. I'm honestly not sure how I feel about this year's Oscars. I'm torn. I'm sort of proud that people are standing up and speaking up about injustices. But I'm also sort of bummed they are speaking up at times when we should be celebrating talent and nothing but... I'm a feminist. I believe in equal rights for all people. And I don't give a flying hootinnanny about your color or your background. I change colors more than anyone else I've ever met!! I also had some low times in my life. But dude, you just won an Oscar because you busted your ass to be the best at what you do!! Treasure that!!! Let politics and bureaucratic nonsense be saved for a time when we aren't celebrating what a badass YOU are!
If you want to make a big statement about color and gender and sexuality equalities, you cover every bit of you from head to toe. Let them guess your color/creed/ethnicity/gender. Be neutral. You want equality for everyone, then STOP putting qualifications to the segregation. It wasn't just a black man that was gunned down in the streets, it was somebody's brother/son/nephew/father/etc. Focus on the real issues, not YOUR issues. Celebrities make BANK on what they look like. There is NO disputing that. None of them got where they are today with their body fully covered in a burlap sack. Even radio hosts are being taped for television shows. You make your money on how you look, why the hell are you now saying "don't treat me different because of the way I look"?!? You are sending mixed messages!!
If I were to ever have/raise children, I'd hope they wouldn't think twice about whether someone was a certain color or gender or anything RIDICULOUS like that. They will never find someone their own ethnicity, unless it's a fullblood sibling. There will never be ANYONE the same color as them because all pigmentation has anomalies. There will never be anyone just like them because everyone is special. They will learn that love is the binding factor for the world. Love and be loved. That's all there is.
Oscars, I believe I am now disappointed.
I love you because that's what I do, love.
I miss you because I could use one of your hugs right now.
Goodnight!!
Xx
P.S. Here's a couple #AggiesEverywhere for y'all:
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