Unexpected
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I wasn’t expecting such beauty. It caught me off guard today. There was a time, just after midday, as I walked along Ocean Beach, when it all overwhelmed me — the slapping wind, the silly birds, the fellow walkers, the kiting surfers, the full sky, the white rocks, the nature right besides, the glistening, sparkling, glimmering, scintillating water.
[San Francisco] children are to be pitied, for, as the wife of publishing magnate Nelson Doubleday once said, “They will probably grow up thinking all cities are so wonderful.”
San Francisco, Encyclopædia Britannica
Oh, and I just bought an apple for 1.75 dollars.
2 Comments
Great picture! Glad you’re enjoying San Francisco. I haven’t been there yet. I’m planning to go in a couple of months. I will definitely check out Ocean Beach while I’m there.
Welcome to San Francisco. I just moved out here myself about six months ago. (Probably about the same time I started reading your blog, actually.) And though I have limited experience with the city, the Doubleday quote seems accurate and insightful to me.
Hope you enjoy the city.