Arriving in San Francisco yesterday to a gorgeous day reminds me that it was always a gorgeous day here – bright blue sunshine – white light that twinkles in its crispness – cool dry air that is remarkably similar to man made air conditioning – and the beautiful people. <\/p>\n
My cab driver is so handsome I have to ask him if he is Turkish – he’s not (Iranian and and Afghanistanian) – he is dressed so hip, he could be a John Varvatos model. <\/p>\n
The hotel room at the Harbor Court on the Embarcadero has a can of personal use oxygen by the bed. <\/p>\n
There is an Earthquake suggestion list which says “Stay Calm. Be Relaxed.” <\/p>\n
I came home in the “madrugada” – those tender hours right when the sun is about to come up – and everyone looked chipper and clean starched (my cab driver on the way home, the front desk person) – it’s 4 in the morning I wanted to shout – why do you look so professional?<\/p>\n
I wake to the same light, crispness, oxygen, coolness, hipness, strangeness, foreignness and again, feel so far from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Arriving in San Francisco yesterday to a gorgeous day reminds me that it was always a gorgeous day here – bright blue sunshine – white light that twinkles in its crispness – cool dry air that is remarkably similar to man made air conditioning – and the beautiful people. My cab driver is so handsome I have to ask him if he is Turkish – he’s not (Iranian and and Afghanistanian) – he is dressed… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-tk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21249,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/21249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}