Copasetic Flow

 Working POTA in San Francisco is a treat!  On the way to the POTA site—Lands End—I got to sttop off at two art musems, and ride, oh, I don't, know, at least 7 different buses, and it was awesome! My first stop was at the DeYoung Museum. While there, I checked out the Robert Henri paintings. He founded (helped to foun?) the ashcan school . We know about him because he influenced Leroy Neiman who made several paintings of one of our favorite hangouts, the Buena Vista. He's also an interesting artist to me because up until about a year ago, there were portraits of his wife and his mistress—hanging on opposite walls of a gallery in the DeYoung—staring at each other. The mistress was missing from the DeYoung yesterday. I remembered that I'd last seen her painting hanging in the Legion of Honor and since I was headed to Lands End anyway, I made the Legion my next stop. And the buses lined up! I'd walked to the bottom of the hill to take the 44 to the DeYoung. I hopped back ...

We used to love inviting other people on our adventures pre-pandemic! Right now though, we're still just trying to relearn the ropes for what's safe and what's not. We're trying to head back out to our old haunts, but just with ourselves until we get a feel for what's going on out in the world. Still, I thought it might be handy to share our expeiences as we went so other people could know what to expect.  If anyone else would like to share the places they're going in the outside world, I'd be delighted to get their perspective!  On Wednesday, we headed to the DeYoung! D estination:  The DeYoung Museum Starting point : The Excelsior Route:  44 from Excelsior to Golden Gate Concourse across from the DeYoung Time of day:  around noon on a Wednesday Transit:  If you’re headed towards Mission, either going North or South, the 44 is more crowded than it will be after you get across Mission. When I say crowded, I mean it was impossible to stay six feet away from ...