Haight

This weekend we went to San Francisco. W has been wanting to get a temporary tatoo. She's been fixated on that for quite some time and we finally decided to go to SF and see if she found something she liked. V said that you could get plenty of choices in the Haight Ashbury section of town and that is where we went. Before we went there though, we went to Golden Gate Park, rented boats and went around Stow Lake. H and I rented a pedal boat, because we didn't feel comfortable with a row boat. At first, we pedalled furiously, but after a while we realized that pedalling slowly was much more efficient.

Haight is where the hippie section of town hangs out. You find people who live in a completely different world than the one I am generally familiar with. Drugs are probably pedalled illicitly on the streets. W pointed out a man who had a suspcious bulge in his pockets and mumbled at every passerby. I wonder if he was pedalling cocaine. If you haven't been to Haight, you really haven't seen SF. It is quite an experience to walk the streets and get a window into another subculture.

For dinner we went to a Ethiopian place called Massawa. The food was very similar to Indian food, though it is no surprise that I think Indian food tastes better.