visit the Bay Area again

Flew up to see an old friend for my birthday. Decided I could live in the Mission and be pretty completely happy. Ate a mortal sin of a meal at Tartine, drank our way through a shady hotel bar and a club doing old-school breaks, found the perfect little square to lounge, ate an epic burrito, saw 3 different hipster street moments (from the Carrot Mob to the anti-scientology parody protest to the Bay Area Cupcake Meetup), went on a Castro bar crawl with a bunch of people who worked for Google, and am now waking up for a last day at a landmark breakfast place and the Seward Street Slides. PERFECT.