Brief Notes of San Francisco
ben | 10 December, 2007 18:56I'm quite amazed at certain things. For example, I recently spent a few days in lovely San Francisco (though lovely is certainly a state of mind - of the three days I was there it rained all day one day, was blazing hot the next, and on the third was foggy and sharply cold). Anyway, I stayed at a cheapish hotel in North Beach called the Saint Paul on the corner of Kearny and Columbus that was comfortable enough, if cramped, and had shared bathroom and shower facilities which were basically two or three single bathroom/showers at the end of the labyrinthine hallways. The bathrooms usually had a slight odor of pot lingering and I caught a glimpse of the room next to mine, which looked like the occupant had moved in for a long, long stay. The Saint Paul was across the street from Cafe Zoetrope, owned by Francis Ford Coppola with writing and production offices in the upstairs floors of the building (and a landmark building in SF).
Cafe Zoetrope
However, all this is beside the point. While doing a bit of tourist walking, I was passed by a group (flock? mob? herd?) of people wearing reflective neon yellow vests - of the type cops wear when directing traffic at night - wearing helmets and riding Segways! I later learned that there is a company that runs Segway tours of San Francisco. It was highly amusing, but I just could not for the life of me see myself strapping on a helmet and reflective vest to putt around one of the coolest cities in the world on a Segway. But maybe that's just me.
Segway tour of San Francisco!
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