yep…this is where we’re at…languishing.
In the meantime…visuals that sum up the 2021 > 2022 transition. Places include the family in Ashland, on the 5 near Mt. Shasta, St. Orres & the Fer & Elf’s gorgeous place in Mendocino and Bowling Ball Beach is in Pt. Arena. We decided to visit the cabin where we spent our first New Year’s together (9 years ago). There’s one image from our ‘first day of the new year’ ritual – a walk in a cemetery. This time it was the Pt. Arena cemetery.
realized this was my first full fledged breakfast out in the Bay Area since before COVID lockdown (late 2019)
longsilog…complete with garlic rice! once the plate was placed on the table I devoured it and forgot to take a picture … 🙁 LOVE El Camino Drive !!
After coming back from the Reno travels we decided to tool around locally. Had the Monday off (International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples) and wanted to do two things. Find a trail we’ve never been to and spend all day at the park reading to each other – the book Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (HIGHLY Recommended).
The new trail was Junipero Serra Park (Saturday), where there was an amazing picnic area (photos). It was a super simple trail, but it was awesome to discover Iris Point (heh heh). It overlooked the Bay and had a straight view towards the SF Airport. I imagined playing mahjong all day on those picnic benches.
Then the next day we ended up spending all day in Golden Gate Park reading. Put up the beach tent and brought a bunch of snacks and a flask and planted ourselves by the trees. We we’re able to shelter ourselves from the wind and enjoy about 5+hours of reading. Felt so old – but I didn’t care, we were warm and fully buzzed (by the novel) 😉
Road trippin…Mt. Diablo…then Reno…Aly’s old hood…Nevada Art Museum…Beverly Buchanan…ROBERTO’S!!!…Thriftin’ and ballin’ at the El Dorado 😂
Then Sunday- my first outing to a theater..the infamous Castro Theater where Frameline was happening. Watched Homegrown – a series of shorts about the Bay Area. All I have to say is that there’s major history that has originated from SF…the legalization of marijuana to name one. The Dennis Peron story was well done!
Weekend was spent out and about. First, rode our bicycles to the Great Highway to help a friend with a sound piece involving bluetooth speakers, semi-coordinated sound & bikes. Chris Brown recorded a piece in collaboration with Dayang Yraola from the Philippines. We road our bicycles up and down the Great Highway enjoying the resonance of both transmitted sounds and existing natural sounds of the waves, birds and people. Below is a brief description:
Music for 1000 Bicycles is an art happening. The collaborating artists will produce music and or sound works that will be uploaded on mobile digital music players. These music players and speakers will be fitted on bicycles. They will also produce performance instructions that the bikers will follow. The ride, which is also the performance, is scheduled for an hour, ideally on an outdoor location, like a park. This performance will be captured on video. The video will be stitched together until 1000 bicycles have already been recorded, making the documentary video of Music for 1000 Bicycles