{"id":35,"date":"2006-09-02T14:48:51","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T21:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=35"},"modified":"2006-09-02T14:48:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T21:48:51","slug":"back-in-the-bay-area-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"Back in the Bay Area-Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006)<\/p>\n<p>I ended up hanging around Berkeley again today. Spur of the moment this afternoon, I decided to take the bus into downtown San Francisco, forgetting that one deck of the Bay Bridge is closed all weekend &#8212; the deck that &#8220;my&#8221; bus uses. I wasn&#8217;t sure if <strong><a title=\"Bay Area Rapid Transit\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bart.gov\/index.asp\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BART<\/a><\/strong> (Bay Area Rapid Transit) could go into San Francisco, so I stuck around my temporary neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Note to self: Try that &#8220;planning ahead&#8221; thing we&#8217;ve heard so much about.<\/p>\n<p>Bike pictures for TB (but no &#8220;proof&#8221; shots):<\/p>\n<p>[thumb:574:c:l=p]<\/p>\n<p>This bumper sticker is just good advice. And I laughed out loud when I saw this sign in a local book store. (Click &#8220;View the album&#8221; to see the captions.)<br \/>\n[thumb:576:c:l=p]<\/p>\n<p>For someone not at all religious, I&#8217;m strangely attracted to religious architecture and art:<\/p>\n<p>[cpg_album:76,3]<\/p>\n<p>Non-religious architecture and art:<\/p>\n<p>[cpg_album:77,3]<\/p>\n<p>In addition to poetry on overpasses, Berkeley also has poetry on sidewalks:<\/p>\n<p>[thumb:595:c:l=p]<\/p>\n<p>And some of today&#8217;s flora:<\/p>\n<p>[thumb:598:c:l=p]<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bay Area Food\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/?page_id=27\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Today&#8217;s meals<\/strong><\/a>: Breakfast at Fellini, lunch and part of dinner from the Berkeley Farmers&#8217; Market, the rest of dinner and dessert from Andronico&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>[thumb:578:c:l=p]<\/p>\n<p>The weather started out cool in the morning, warmed up for the afternoon, and cooled down again in the evening. Like almost every day, so far.<\/p>\n<p>Another note to self: We love the Bay Area, Berkeley in particular, and we need a job. Perhaps we could be a weather forecaster &#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006) I ended up hanging around Berkeley again today. Spur of the moment this afternoon, I decided to take the bus into downtown San Francisco, forgetting that one deck of the Bay Bridge is closed all weekend &#8212; the deck that &#8220;my&#8221; bus uses. I wasn&#8217;t sure if BART (Bay Area Rapid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco-bay-area","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}