Golden Gate Park

I'm overdue in writing about my weekend in San Fran!  It was great to get away, but San Francisco was a little crazier than I expected.  The vibe was a little more gritty urban than I had imagined, it was not very relaxing.

The respite from this was spending a day at Golden Gate Park.  I love walking in parks, and this is one of the best there is.  It's 3 miles by .5 mile, which is 20% larger than Central Park in New York.  It has an epic amount of stuff in it, a Japanese tea garden, a large lake, windmills, ball fields, a fine arts museum.  We saw an amazing array of things, people riding around on Segways, a family of ducks, fields of lilies, people on horseback.  But the best part of it was just taking a few steps off of the main roads, and you're in wilderness.  Big beautiful trees, peace and quiet.  I didn't particularly enjoy San Francisco, but I was ready to move to be close to the park.

It also happens to border the Pacific Ocean, and it might have been my happiest hour of the weekend to lie down in the warm sand and sunshine, and listen to the waves.