Blogs from Mission, San Francisco, California, United States, North America - page 5

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We woke the next day again to an overcast sky. Ads instructs us to dress for warm weather and prepare for the cold - apparently it is always cold in the city. We hopped the BART to Mission again - this time our 'mission' in Mission was to track down the so called 'world's best breakfast burrito'. We found it. It was good. I can't say it was the best in the world because I have only had one other on the island of Korcula in Croatia and I don't think that gives me the burrito experience I need to make a judgement. It was pretty damn good. And pretty damn big. I only ate half. Lots of cool cafes, crazy bright murals with sad scenes of oppression in central and south america where many of ... read more


'On a plane about to fly to San Francisco!' I updated my Facebook status and sat back in my seat. Thank god! I had been waiting for this holiday for months. First stop San Francisco - my friend Ads from a previous life (we worked in a video store together back home a long time ago) had invited me to stay with him and his lovely partner Nat in Berkley. They wanted to say thankyou for me having them stay in London a while back and I had always wanted to wanted to see San Fran. They call it Sydney's sister city. Sydney is my home town. I remember many moons ago when I worked in Tokyo as an English teacher, I was secretly in love with my Japanese/American friend, colleague and neighbour. He was fresh ... read more


Circolo San Francisco, CA April 15, 2010... read more
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There is something about that first beer of the morning, the previous night Speck had run into the liquor store and purchased a sixer of Sapporo. After all, breakfast was not included in the room rate and he gets thirsty first thing in the morning. So with a beer in hand and every one else still asleep he heads back to the hot tub for his morning boil and brew. Returning to the room an hour later every one is as they were, so he sat outside and read until the rest of the party rolled out of bed. Showers were taken, plans were roughed out, and we headed to the car. There Speck found his missing cellphone, still mid text... "Hey Speck, how many beers have you had already? One?" and they tossed him the ... read more
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