Summer is coming to an end. But the break isn’t! As the month comes to a close, I’ve started to transition from feeling and saying “Oh I just graduated” to “Oh I’m unemployed.”
- I went to San Francisco a couple of weekends ago. I should’ve wrote some scattered thoughts right after the trip because now I’ve forgotten the details. So I’ll gloss over it now. Japantown is awesome and the amount of time we spent there reflects that. Most of the guys I was with lived on U.S. bases in Japan as kids (and the one who didn’t visited over summer break), so we’re pretty biased.
- Food spots we tried: Max’s Diner (not great, plus we were trying to go to a different Max’s and didn’t realize it until we were too late); some sushi place (great, fresh sushi, but we were a little sticker shocked mostly because we’ve grown used to happy hour prices); Sophie’s crepes (basically like Unicorn Crepes in Seattle, except cheaper with larger portions); some Ramen place (perfect the day after going out); House of Curry (good curry, good naan); some crepe place on Haight (just had a taste, and it was good, but I prefer the modern Asian cones over the traditional crepes); Cancun Taqueria (had the carnitas, beef tongue, and chorizo tacos and loved them all); and of course, In ‘N’ Out (it’s good, pretty much everyone agrees, I also had a brain lapse and said no to onions for my first double-double which is the same saying no if they asked if I wanted my burger to be delicious).
- Went to Club Sutra. Had fun. Two fights broke out and every kind of emergency vehicle was lined up outside at the end of the night. According to one of the doormen at our hotel, that’s the norm on Broadway.
- Taxi drivers are nuts there. Here’s part of a comment I left on Albert’s San Francisco running blog: “We had one that I’d describe as deceptively terrifying because he wasn’t on the phone, didn’t get angry, didn’t talk, and stayed calm while flooring it, tailgating, and cutting across multiple congested lanes. His ability to find openings was comparable to an elite running back’s.”
- As we walked through one of the terminals in SFO, I realized that same terminal was essentially deserted the last time I was there. I got flashbacks in SFO of the time I got stranded there. Immediately I remembered that I basically traded an afternoon boogie boarding and relaxing in Hawaii for sleeping in an airport without a shower or a change of clothes. Easily breaks into my top-5 worst nights ever.
All in all, I really like San Francisco and I wouldn’t mind visiting again in the immediate future. I could actually try Farmerbrown (it was closed when we went the first time we tried and reservations-only the second time we tried) along with everything in the No Reservations episode that we preceded by a couple days.