Day 05 - I really don't know why we don't spend more time in that city. We've not been in SF for probably a dozen years, to venture a guess.
We had made plans to see Daragh at 10 o'clock under the clock tower of the SF Ferry Terminal building. After breakfast on our ship, we disembarked and did. We have seen Daragh more often than his city. He at one time owned a bit of Coal Harbour, Vancouver as an investment.
We knew this man when he taught with me in Dubai. We left in 1996 and he a bit before us. Having already done touristy things in the quirky city, we were happy just to walk around a bit catching up.
He is not working at present by choice. So, he wasn't a slave to any sort of schedule. I wanted to walk to Union Square. The temperature was around 78F with a shockingly blue sky. We noticed that several new buildings are changing the skyline. We have to go back when the new subway connects to the BART. Daragh suggested going up in one famous hotel or another for a noon drink in a sky-bar. Unfortunately, it didn't open for lunch, so we went out wait for a historical tram to Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf.
We didn't spend all the quarters he changed in the 'antique arcade'. There were indeed some electro-mechanical marvels for carnivals from years past. There were also early, electronic arcade games from our days at The Harbor Gameroom. Space Invaders and Ms. Pacman are officially historical at this point. We ducked into a famous shoreline restaurant where Daragh ate but Jay and me, a root beer and two litres of IPA, respectively.
We walked back to the MS Noordam at the cruise-ship terminal at Pier 27. We really enjoyed seeing Daragh and vow to not let it be so long until another encounter.
It was a pretty full day of walking as my Mi Band indicated the day ended with at least 14 kilometers on my formerly-new Keens. Our ship slipped beneath the Golden Gate bridge and into the creeping fog of the evening at around 6:30 pm.
