fountain near farmer's market
We wandered around the civic center location around the hotel in the morning (City Hall, courthouse, Asian Art Museum) and explored the Farmer’s Market across the street. The above photo depicts a bird picking up human trash in front of carved quote “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” This fountain was next to the Farmer’s Market across from our hotel. I liked the irony.
SF and the Bay Bridge
We had breakfast in our hotel lobby restaurant, checked out, missed our shuttle, hailed a cab, and got to the airport without further ado. In the security line, a guy about my age in front of me turned and asked if we were there to attend the USC-Cal game. I said we weren’t, and then said I’m a Bruin. He stopped talking to me and turned his back to me abruptly, rather snobbily. We all laughed, and then he said he was attending the UCLA-USC game in December. The rest of the overheard conversation at the airport was seemingly a bunch of Trojans talking trash about the game, we won, blah blah, we’re awesome, blah blah, we showed them, blah blah, we’re overprivileged and undereducated, blah blah.

Oh yeah. I did remember to give Mr. W the window seat on the flight back. I got to sit in the middle of the section next to a mother holding an infant with very healthy lungs. No, actually, the little baby girl was very cute. She was only loud for a couple of minutes.