Goin' Down to Chinatown (San Francisco)?🥠

One of my goals when visiting San Francisco was to buy a bag of fortune cookies in Chinatown to take with us and eat one or two each day as we made our way across America, as I wrote in this post -

The Snake is Back from Tomorrow? 🐍🧨🎆

So, after we had visited the Grace Cathedral and walked the outside labyrinth, we walked down to Chinatown and had dinner at The Far East Cafe.

Walking the Grace Cathedral Labyrinth? ⛪🦶👣👼

The Far East Cafe

And being from Brisbane, Australia we certainly were pretty far east from home that night:-)

We were even served fortune cookies at the end of our meal:-)

On our walk down to Chinatown we saw a driverless WAYMO car holding up traffic, because it wouldn't cross the white line in the middle of the road and wouldn't pass the car that wasn't parked parallel to the curb.

There was also a driverless WAYMO car behind that one, but it had a passenger in it who must have contacted the company to explain why his car was stuck behind the one in front, because that was the first WAYMO to cross the white line and go around the one in front of it. 

My son filmed the whole thing, but I just took a few photos on my phone.

We had ridden in one of these cars the night before, as I had written in this post -

Welcome to the USA?🛫🛬

You see some weird things while walking through Chinatown, like this photo above where I had to look twice, as I thought I had snapped a photo of Greta Thunberg approaching Bigfoot:-) 

Winona Ryder - Die Geister, die sie rief (TV Movie 2022)

One good thing about walking right around Chinatown was I came across a bookstore I had planned to visit, but had forgotten all about, the City Lights Bookstore, which I had seen in a documentary about Winona Ryder weeks before we left Australia for America.

I ended up buying a copy of Gravity's Rainbow here that night, but won't be reading it for months, or maybe years to come.

Who is Thomas Pynchon?📯📧📬

I checked out the POETRY ROOM that night and they were setting up for a book talk, but I'm not into poetry and we were leaving for Las Vegas the next day, so we gave it a miss.

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Poetry is Not for Me, But is it for You? 🌹🥀

City Lights Bookstore's POETRY ROOM

We had lost track of time and didn't realize that the fortune cookie shop had closed, and we didn't have our bag of fortune cookies to take to Vegas the next day.

My son suggested that we should still walk round and see if they might still be open.

The shop was closed, but there was a lady in there making fortune cookies and my son asked her if she would sell us a bag. 

She gave us a bag full of fresh unmade cookies, as well as the bag of cookies we asked for, so my son gave her $20 her being so nice to us.

So, that was it for us as far as our San Francisco leg of the trip went and it was off to the airport the next day to fly out to Vegas to watch the Sharks take on the Panthers over that weekend.

I can't ever see myself going back to San Francisco in this lifetime, as I did everything I had planned to do and bought the Starbucks SF mug to remind me of all the places I saw while I was there.
But never say never, as they say:-)

That might make for a great fortune cookie saying?-)