Happy Independence Day, fellow Americans.
I am still amazed that you can buy a good bottle of wine at Safeway... on Sunday no less. Colorado still has Blue Laws, so you have to go to a liquor store to buy your booze, and you can't get a drink on a Sunday unless you go to a bar. Seeing wine at 7-11 is even stranger.
I took a little walk over to Fisherman's Wharf the other day. It's the most dense concentration of tourist crap that I have ever laid witness to.
But I find it most curious that I haven't come across nearly as much seafood in the normal resturaunts as I would expect for a coastal city. Of course there are a number of seafood-oriented resturaunts in the popular tourist areas. Yet most places I've been populate their menus primarily with chicken and steak in their entrees.
I am still amazed that you can buy a good bottle of wine at Safeway... on Sunday no less. Colorado still has Blue Laws, so you have to go to a liquor store to buy your booze, and you can't get a drink on a Sunday unless you go to a bar. Seeing wine at 7-11 is even stranger.
I took a little walk over to Fisherman's Wharf the other day. It's the most dense concentration of tourist crap that I have ever laid witness to.
But I find it most curious that I haven't come across nearly as much seafood in the normal resturaunts as I would expect for a coastal city. Of course there are a number of seafood-oriented resturaunts in the popular tourist areas. Yet most places I've been populate their menus primarily with chicken and steak in their entrees.
3am:
Is Pier 39 still there with all those little shops? I haven't been up there in so long.