Robin and I recently took a trip to the west coast to visit my daughter and her family who live in Salem, Oregon. Before we went there we did a little sightseeing in San 
Francisco and Sacramento. We had a wonderful time, both sightseeing and visiting. There were a couple out of the ordinary encounters that occurred.
San Francisco like most large cities has a lot of homeless folks. Two individuals stand out in my memory although I do not believe the second to have been homeless. The first was a very dirty white man of indeterminate age. His clothes were dirtier than his body and they seemed to be disintegrating on him as he approached. He reminded me of an actor I once saw at Medieval Fair playing the part of the village mad man. This fellow in San Francisco was screaming at the top of his lungs in language I assume was English, but it was not very intelligible. He was also gesticulating wildly. He alarmed me somewhat, and I moved myself and Robin aside.
The second individual was a black man around 40 years of age. He was dressed in a nice suit sans tie. Continue reading “Fun In The Golden State”