A little bit about a recent California visit

This is really a little bit. 

I am trying hard to blog more. 

I am failing. 

But I did write this little blurb a few days after I arrived for a two-week visit, late August/earlySeptember. 

My friends had told me things had changed in SF since I lived here two years ago.

They say the new young techies and dot.com success stories have once again made

San Francisco (economically) more challenging for “the common people.”  Perhaps true.  The ultra sleek and modern Google buses that bring their employees to and from Silicon Valley contrast with the regular every-day Muni buses.  Once downtrodden Valencia Street is now packed with startup, trendy restaurants to go with the startup, trendy techies.  On the beautiful San Francisco waterfront, longtime residents are stirred up about a plan to allow high-rise condominiums to be built and forever change the city skyline.  Down the road away, near the Marina, the Americas Cup is ongoing.  The Bay Bridge reopens this weekend with its new span and living artwork a light display put together in such a way that folks on the ground can see it as they look up, but drivers crossing the bridge cannot – in other words no distractions for drivers.

And food trucks have taken over … with every type of food imaginable. 

I got off the trolley at the Castro and 17^th last stop in San Francisco.  What was waiting for me there was a crème brulee food truck.  Only in San Francisco!