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A Random Walk down San Francisco

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  Mission Dolores Park at afternoon , on a sunny day. I took a stroll in SF this President’s Day weekend —my first true walk to discover this city. Here’s all that happened, Walk Down 4th Street The Caltrain chugged into San Francisco station at ~10.15AM. I haven’t eaten anything since the last night’s dinner so I’m dying to run down 4th Street and sit at the bar at Mel’s Drive-In. After tagging my Clipper card at the station to pay the fare — I start walking down 4th Street. Straight off the bat, I start to see some of the sadder aspects of the city — the trash strewn on the streets and the homeless people. Most of them wearing dirt jackets/woollen cloths, munching on a Banana, a Burger King packet thrown away nearby close to their tent. One guy was throwing a tantrum(& his coat) and acting all weird on Bryant St. This was interesting to me because it’s the first time I am seeing this live. I’d only seen this on TV until now. But it was just a trailer for what was to come later(re