Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry

• San Francisco
• Bernal Heights
• Mission / Valencia
• SFO - LHR

1. Playing bridge in Boogaloo Cafe on Valencia (and talking comics to the waiter)
2. Walking en famille in the sunshine (around Valencia / Dolores)
3. Playing chess on my dad's old set with D

Today's Happiness Experiment Entry - Frisco

• San Francisco
• Bernal Hill
• Bernal Heights
• Embarcadero
• Golden Gate Bridge (by bicycle)
• Sausalito
• Mission

1. Cycling over the Golden Gate Bridge with N including down by Fort Point where Vertigo was shot
2. "most authentic meal" of the trip with N at Baby Blues BBQ - with two great BBQ sauces
3. listening to Roger Graef's Desert Island Discs and Giles Andreae's Inheritance Tracks on top of Bernal Hill

Today's Happiness Experiment entry - San Francisco

• San Francisco
• Alcatraz & Embarcadero
• Russian Hill & Nob Hill (cable car)

1. finding out about the Red Power occupation of Alcatraz
2. walking up Russian Hill for the views in the late afternoon - and cable-carring down again
3. reading The Subterraneans on the front balcony and in the sheltered back garden at sundown with the smoke of the recent bushfires (100 miles) to the north of SF drifting across the hills

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry - The Beat goes on

• San Francisco
• Bernal Heights
• North Beach

1. Listening to live jazz in North Beach at Washington Square while reading The Subterraneans
2. Recreating the recreation of the Jack Kerouac-Neal Cassady photo after 11 years with N & D
3. Playing bridge over brunch on our local high street (Bernal Heights)

Yesterday's Happiness Experiment entry - San Francisco

• Monterey
• San Francisco - Bernal Heights
• Oakland 

1. walking around Oakland First Fridays festival with Richard Hart (including some top hummus)
2. sitting reading on the balcony of 117 Prospect Ave, Bernal Heights, SF (finishing Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker - third book of the trip) in the windy sunshine overlooking the city
3. being driven through San Francisco out of Downtown to Mission into its low-rise European style vibe

City Lights - today's Happiness Experiment entry

Getting home - a gentle night breeze and swaying roses in the backstreets



Having my photo of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco selected by a guidebook



Chatting to N + D on the phone - about guitar, skipping and stuff