Today was supposed to be rainy, but it managed to hold off until we hiked to the Golden Gate Bridge, took some pictures and wandered a couple of more miles to the Haight-Ashbury area. For those of you too young to have heard, this was "the" centre for the drug/hippy phase of the 60s. So the picture is of the intersection of Haight and Ashbury, where the Grateful Dead posed and supposedly dropped some acid. It once again reminded me of a song I thought of as we drove over the Golden Gate Bridge: "San Francisco - Be Sure to Wear SomeFlowers inYour Hair". It's mostly full of shops selling tie-died t-shirts and posters, cafes and such, but probably very little of the counterculture era that the area was famous for over 40 years ago. It was kind of "cute" but with noticeably more street people hanging around, as well as in the adjacent Golden Gate Park. By the time we had finished lunch, it had started to rain more seriously, so we plodded back to the lodgings in the rain, even the umbrellas not managing to keep us completely dry.
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