After checking out of the Hotel Monaco on Sunday (and not getting caught breaking the “dogs are not allowed to be unattended in rooms” policy), we cruised around the city for awhile and ended up at Golden Gate Park.  Golden Gate Park is the largest man-made park in the country, and the third-most visited park in the country after Central Park (NYC) and Lincoln Park (CHI).  This was more impressive until I realized that it’s only 174 acres larger than Central Park, which itself is about 1000ac.

Anyway, Golden Gate Park is a lot more calm and enjoyable than Central Park — less cars, less people, more nature.  It also contains a small herd of Bison (?!) among other things.  We had lunch at some BBQ joint at a golf pro shop, which was decent though not particularly memorable.

We later drove through Haight-Ashbury, which was a cool neighborhood that reminded me St. Marks in the east village, though more laid back.  Neglected to take any pictures of that, though.

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