Day 33 – Berkeley Day VI – City of Snakes
Another good day in Berkeley, dear readers.
First, Cole, exactly one-half of my gracious hosting party, made some lovely and vegan rice crispies treats.
Were these delicious? Indeed. They had chocolate chips AND peanut butter in them. Amazing. So that was a lovely start to the day.
Josh returned from work around noon-thirty and we milled about until leaving for an afternoon and evening in San Francisco.
Our first stop was Golden Era Vegetarian place. It’s basically a Chinese/Vietnamese place that is 100% vegetarian and “99.99%” vegan. Also very good. Today was a day of good food.
I ordered a beef dish. Cole ordered a chicken dish and Josh did as well. Very good stuff. The flavors were wonderful. We went to this place in 2004 as well.
Josh had to give a speech somewhere and so Cole and I went to the Mission district. Mission Street smells like urine, so we went to Valencia and took in some bookstores.
I was looking for a certain book by Jeffrey Brown, but found another one instead. I think I have all but two or three of his books.
I’m glad that I’m able to go into bookstores without having bookstore flashbacks. The ones on Valencia were really nice. They had a lot of weird and independent releases. Things I wish I could have carried, but Lewisburg just wasn’t as cool as it wanted to be.
Cole and I walked about 4,000 miles and it got cold, as San Francisco does. So we went to a coffee shop and sat around reading and waiting for Josh.
He arrived and then we drove back to Berkeley.
Upon arrival, we watched three Flight of the Conchords episodes and I got sleepy, so we went to bed.
And folks, that was my day. I’m sorry these aren’t more fun, but here it is – live! (Well, almost).
As for what’s coming up. I’m leaving Berkeley on Thursday morning. It’s doubtful that I’ll have internet access much until I get to Salt Lake City, four days later – on Sunday night.
Anyway, here are my pics.
Thanks!
