From Oakland to Sactown…The Bay Area and back down!

Sorry, I had to get that out of my system. Hope all of you are doing well during these interesting times. Just checking in to say hi to you. Right now, I’m in San Francisco Financial District at my brother Jerry’s apartment. The weather is perfect and with a sunny breeze in the mid-70’s…I am NOT looking forward to the much hotter weather back in SoCal at 100 degrees and up all week.

I have been away from home since August 4th. It was a much needed trip and got a lot accomplished. I started my vacation by flying to Sacramento and visited the homie Namor and his family for most of my stay. I was able to visit Doonan at his barbershop, as well as visit old places that my Dad and I used to go to in Rocklin, which is 25 mins northeast of Sacramento.

To get around, I had to use Lyft, rent a scooter on the street, and take the train to SF during my trip. Since we are still in the middle of a pandemic, I made sure to stay clean as much as possible by disinfecting areas that have been used by the public, especially at my Airbnb room, scooters, train rides. I had sanitizing wipes for the plane ride and Southwest Airlines did a good job of keeping things cleaned and sanitized before I wiped my areas down for peace of mind. Masking up is and social distancing is mandatory when leaving the house wherever we went, so that made me feel more at ease knowing that strangers had to do their part as well.

In SF, I was able to hang out with my cousin Randy and my other brother Brian as well. I don’t think we’ve all been together in SF at one time, so it was nice to have a change of scenery as well as more comfortable weather. For Jerry’s birthday this past weekend, we went to Pabu, a sushi restaurant through Michael Mina. That was another memorable fine-dining experience and can’t wait to do it again. On my last days here, much of it consisted of city shooting with my Nikon, cruising with our scooters and sunbathing in between all of that.

Well, that’s it for now- I’ll check back in and will be posting photos that I have been taking throughout my trip.

One love,