Not warm now!

[rattfan]

Greetings, all. Just a brief look in. San Francisco managed all of 13^C today. I could've stayed home to enjoy that! We had a couple of days of really nice weather then the temperature plummeted. On an open-air bus over the Golden Gate Bridge, several people were up top but came staggering down, teeth chattering, ice encrusted in their hair. The bridge itself was swathed in fog.

Stephen, thanks for the heads up on T-shirts. They were charging almost $18 on Alcatraz for the same stuff in Chinatown for $3. They also sell very cheap polar fleece sweatshirts, which were also selling very well for some reason.

I am very tired with all the walking but am having a good time. Have done almost all the stuff I had on my list and posted some loot home to myself. Unfortunatly what I didn't know is that the USA no longer does seamail, so I think I got skinned. However, better than carrying it.

Today was Golden Gate Park. I wasn't sure I was on course for the Japanese garden and it's a big park, so I asked two guys sitting and having a smoke just off the trail. When I got closer, I realised they were having a Smoke. There were squirrels and birds playing around them and I wonder now if they'd taken in some fumes. They gave me directions and I toddled off again, thinking, "Did I just get directions from a couple of dope smokers?" WEll, yes. The directions were a bit fuzzy but they got me there. I was expecting a sand garden and a couple of bonsai but the garden was huge. I'll be trying to copy some of that when I get home but I think the climate may work against me.

On to Denver in a couple of days, where I hope it's going to be summer.

keep well, everyone

Comments

[snakypoet]

Well, that's a comfort to us ... I guess. Freezing in Oz too, on the east coast at least - so if one is going to freeze, nice to be doing it in SF I think. Sorry, scant commiserations from here, lol.

[cmdrsuzdal.livejournal.com]

Yay, the Tea Garden is lovely!

[maureenkspeller.livejournal.com]

If you are posting books, there are airmail m-bags, which are still cheaper than sending stuff by the ordinary airmail route. The boxes must be small enough to go inside a mailbag, make sure you say at the outset they're books you're posting,and you may have to insist that this service does exist (I've used it, it does) but it helps.

[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

Last time I posted books back from the US, I was told that a mailbag was the cheapest way. It was, too, and it didn't have to be books.

Mind you, it's only economical if you have a large load to send back (so large, in my case, that carrying the bag back from the P O Box wasn't fun).

[ratfan.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately it wasn't only books - but the next time probably will be so thanks, will try that :-)