Saturday, July 31, 2021

Birthday Bay Crossing I: Return to San Francisco

 

 

 

San Francisco Ferry leaving Oakland
My first visit in a year and a half
an unprecedented span of time in 42 years



 
The military you always have with you
 
 
 
 

Water wall
An admirable ship repair facility
on the Alameda side



 
 Our great thriving Port
Greedy self-interest demands 
a colossal new baseball stadium here
 

 
 Onward
 
 

 
 Why mess up a good thing?
Did I mention I live a mile from here?



 
 Whither o America?
 
 
 
 The recent replacement span
of the Bay Bridge
 

 
 Yerba buena?
Si Senior, Mucho
 

 
 Lifting off 
Vintage span of the Bay Bridge
 

 
 Always a thrill sailing under it

 
 
 
 
 Into the North Bay
 
 

 
 Mount Tamalpais and the Summer fog
 

 
Land ho!
 


 The City formally known as San Francisco

 
 
The way we came
 
 
Seems now so far away
 
 

 
Made land by 11:10 AM
 
 
1930s bridge-builders and the new San Francisco
 



An old San Francisco waterfront hotel
what stories it could surely tell
 
 
 
 
 My bridge survey will resume
on yonder protruding pedestrian pier
 featuring
 Maritime history in painted tiles






As I always say
the military is never far away
Patrolling our thinking



28 July 2021






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