Friday, October 2, 2009 Our wedding anniversary weekend and “Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival”

We drive part of the “49 mile Scenic Drive”

and go up to Coit Tower and its view and its wonderful 1920’s murals inside. We check email at Peet’s coffee shop. We get lucky again with our friends telling us about a wonderful free event in SF this weekend.

In the evening see Lyle Lovett and his large band with John Prine joining him to perform at one of the most amazing free music festivals I have ever heard of and in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco - Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. It seems every year an amateur music buff and millionaire, Jack Hellman, puts on this free 6 stage festival with big name artists for 3 nights from 11am to 7pm! When they ask what happened to the hippies, I now have an answer. Some of them at least were in Golden Gate Park this weekend! Also young hippies too.

15, -20,000 of them. And peaceful. A very wonderful and nice experience. We also saw Richie Havens, The Chieftians, a new band for us that we liked, World Party, and on Sunday evening closing a great old rock and roll favorite, Little Feat. 2nd night at Golden Gate bridge.

Thursday, October 1, 2009 Museum, Friends biking the Golden Gate

Have breakfast at Ocean Beach as it is called in SF

and 2nd fabulous breakfast in Eleesa’s sunny garden.

Again visit the regular collections at the De Young museum. First we go up to the Tower for a fabulous view of the city.

Then take a guided tour of the museum. She tells us about the “fault line” significance in the architect’s design of the building that replaced a lovely old building damaged by the earthquakes. We then meet with Nicole from our coaching course.

We take another tour of the African exhibit

and see a fabulous installation of gold which is actually made of metal bottle caps. Can you see the figure in the piece? There is a semi-automatic gun so the artist is saying a lot about his society as he sees it. Then down to Fisherman’s Wharf on this sunny day.

We bike across Golden Gate Bridge in the fog at sunset. Sleep close to Golden Gate Bridge.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 San Francisco

Going to SF to show Van to possible buyer and visit Tut exhibition. In line before us are 2 lovely Dutch guys!! We take them to their place in SF where they are staying and we have a European evening of snacks, wine and good conversation. Gezellig as the Dutch would say!They are preparing for something big in the park so we sleep on the street next to Golden Gate park,

Monday and Tuesday, September 28 and 29, 2009 Sleeping in and organizing for two days

Monday:
We get the opportunity to sleep in in a stationary bed. Taking a break we get organized at Julie and Patrick’s. The beginning of a long process where we will end by handing over our van to the next loving hands
Tuesday:
2nd day of the break and we get organized at Julie and Patrick’s.

No pictures taken.

Sunday, September 27, 2009 Coaching Assisting – Day 3

The last day and much more learning. Deeper emotions shared and good feelings and wishes communicated by all as we say goodbye. Great experience for us and the participants.

Friday and Saturday, September 25 and 26, 2009 Coaching Assisting – Day 1 and Day 2

Friday:
We go into CTI before noon to prepare for an exciting weekend of assisting for a course that we have taken. We meet our leaders and the other assistant for the first time. Then the participants arrive and we remember when we first started. Truly exciting, rewarding and memorable. And we get to learn all over again!! We go out to eat in San Rafael and have BBQ sandwiches. MMM!
Then head out for sunset over the water at Tiburon
Saturday:
We enjoy another wonderful long day of learning for the participants and us. .. We watch the sunset and walk around Sausalito and the sunset over SF. And as we pass by a restaurant with music, someone calls our names! Since we know few people around it is quite remarkable. Elizabeth, our co-assistant, comes out and beckons us to join us inside. We share a pizza and a lovely miracle evening of magical meeting.

Thursday, September 24, 2009 Foggy Day in SF and lunch with a new friend, Eleesa.

We wake to foggy day on our lake home in Golden Gate Bridge. We go to the De Young Museum where there is a King Tut Exhibit. As we tour around Golden Gate Park and SF we remember San Francisco is a Beautiful world class city! We contact a new friend, Eleesa, we met at Unity Church.

And she invites us for a scrumptious organic lunch of pasta with special sauce and organic lamb sausages.

We talk about coaching, hers and our new found profession and inspire one another. We head out arriving at San Rafael before night, back to our dear friends, Julie and Patrick.