Same Old, Same Old . . .

Walk # 32 - Sunset & Parkside #3

I feel like I've done this before. . .

Took the L-Taraval to the zoo, again, and walked home. All the way up 46th to Lincoln, down 48th, circle around Moraga and Great Highway then along Lawton.

Yes, LaWton, not Lamton....

Easy mistake. Just like this one at Forty Oneth Ave...

Or this one:

From Lawton I took 6th to the Lincoln and headed home. The only non street stampy thing that was even remotely interesting was this:

It seems to me that "Holy Name" should be a place holder until you come up with an actual holy name. But it looks like they just went with. Good times.

Total mileage 7.52

Hmmmm Baby!! World Series Champs!!

Go Giants!

Walking has been on the back burner for the last few weeks due to the World Series.

Of course, my dad and I walked to Game 2 at AT&T Park . . .

(psst. remember when I thought that game in September would be the last one I would go to this year? turns out anything is possible! lesson of the post season: don't stop believing!)

And then I walked to a friends house to watch Game 3 and saw this along Haight St . . . .

(I have seen it before, it just hasn't made the blog yet. It's supposed to be Broderick.)

And lastly, I walked to Green Sports Bar to watch Game 5 . . .

I walked along Gough, or Gouh, for just a short 2.05 mile jaunt. Seen here:

World Series 2010 end result: Giants 4 Texas 1

Progress?

keeping on . . .

Sunset & Parkside #2

Walk #31

With some extra time on my hands today I decided to reverse my walk from yesterday. I hopped on Muni, got off at the San Francisco Zoo and walked home.

I started out by circling a two blocks, then went up 47th to Lincoln. Out Lincoln to La Playa, down to Kirkham and Kirkham till it ended at 5th Ave.

The Sunset is really a misnomer, as all San Franciscans know. There's no sign of sun and hence no sunset. The Sunset is constantly drenched in fog but they are near the beach and it looks like the residents do the best they can do brighten the place up.

And show off their ocean proximity

They're also ready for Halloween.

ooooooh, scary!

And no walk would be complete without the following section on Cement Street Stamps!

No mistake here. I just really love the formatting effort of the "TH" :)

Mistakes here though.

Again, I can't get too worked up about the '1' - 'I' phenomenon as it's EVERYWHERE, but I do love the upside down V. Technically, not misspelled, just awesome.

Around 5th, I covered some dead end streets at UCSF before heading to Hugo, Arguello, Carl, Cole and Waller to get home.

Total mileage: 8.35

Sunset & Parkside #1

Walk #30

New walking rule. In addition to not walking new routes on the way to work, and always carrying cash, I will ALWAYS carry a rain coat. Luckily, it only began to rain a few blocks from the zoo and the end of my walk, but it could've been much worse.

I started down Lincoln and was headed to the San Francisco Zoo where I did not go, but rather picked up Muni to get downtown and watch (read: be disappointed by) some Giant baseball.

Along Lincoln, I found this which at first glance is fine. But check out the '6'

It's actually the "8" but with a little creative design. This is one of the street stampers better efforts. Especially given that only I, in all of my street stamp OCDness, would notice.

This however is pretty blatant:

As I was decked out in orange, I was happy to find a lot of these along the way.

Hmmmmmm Baby!

Total mileage: 4.49

$2 Tuesday

Walk #29

I had some time to kill before meeting MJ and Randy at the City Tavern for $2 Tuesday. So I decided to take Larkin Street all the way out to the Wharf before crossing to the Marina.

I was quite glad it wasn't as much of a hike as I had anticipated. There were some stairs down at the end, but even they weren't too steep or too bad. The weather was perfect and the view was great. What more could a girl ask for?

Once I hit Chestnut Street I decided to bust out a few blocks between Bay and Chestnut, Van Ness and Laguna. All in all it was highly uneventful, though with my Matt Cain t-shirt on I got interrupted a lot and asked for the score of the game. Luckily I knew, 3 - 0 Giants!

After a super cheap night out, hooray for $2 beers and chicken tenders!, I choose Pierce St. to lead me home. As I crossed Union I found this creative effort by the street stampers:

I suppose if you'd lost the 'N' this would be the best way to go. Unless they meant Uivioiv Street. Then my bad. You guys are good.

I ran into a lot of parks on Pierce Street and had to make a few detours. But for the most part it was a straight shot. Then a few blocks from home, I had to ponder my whole plan and existance as this message was left waiting for me:

Total Mileage: 7.54

Anza-Getting things done for America! Avenue

Walk # 28 - Fired Up!

It was a pretty standard walk home this evening. I followed Ellis from work as far as I could and made a few detours around a school and a Safeway. I walked up Fillmore for just one block, but it was the block that had this honoring Etta James, so naturally I spent the next mile singing "At laaast" because those are the only words I know.

I had to give up on Etta James so I decided to walk with my favorite boy from the cupboard under the stairs.

Ellis ends in a secluded neighborhood on a hill called Anzavista.

Or An-backwards Z-vista (at Encanto Ave)

Or AnAzavista (at Barcelona Ave)

Anavista is also home to a stairway up, and a stairway down . . . .

Down Lyon, I found this aptly named church. It's called Solid Rock Baptist Church.

Total mileage: 4.29