San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I’m both of those, which is why I came here. ~ Michael Franti

A Walking Day in San Francisco

Prior to my surgery, I often walked San Francisco at least one day every weekend. It’s such an amazing city with so many different neighborhoods, tons of parks, lots of museums and of course amazing food everywhere. Also, it’s a place where you never know what you might see.

Since my surgery I’ve been a bit limited, initially to the distance I could walk, then and continuing, the healing process for my breastbone and the inability to wear a backpack. Finally, I am up to walking significant distances, my breastbone is still healing but is at least fused together and I can handle a backpack as long as it only has a jacket and a hat in it.

So today I went for a small walk along the Embarcadero, took BART down, and walked from the Ferry Building over to Pier 39 in order to get a pizza.

Then after my pizza I did a walk back up along the Embarcadero but detoured just a bit to hang out in Levi Plaza, a lovely little park outside the headquarters of the Levi corporation. While there, I got to see some really happy bees working the flowers in the park.

As always, there were interesting sights all around.

It was a lovely day and a nice little test walk. I have to admit a bit of anxiety as I ended up in a huge crowd for Bastille Day, but I came through without getting bumped or jostled in any way and felt pretty good about the experience. As with all of my walks I got a few pictures of flowers and that’s how I will leave you tonight, have a happy day my friends. ~ Rev Kane