Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
I took several nice walks over the past three days.…
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I took several nice walks over the past three days. I recommend all of them.
On Friday afternoon, on a whim, I walked from campus to Woolsey and Shattuck. I walked south from Bancroft and Dana, and then turned right and walked one block west every time a street ended, and then turned left as soon as possible to resume walking south.
The next day Leonard and I walked from the North Berkeley BART station south to Derby and Shattuck via a meandering path -- Sacramento, Rose, MLK, Virginia, Bonita, University, Shattuck, campus, Dana, and then a similar course to the one I had taken the previous day, except that we turned right (westward) on Russell. Lots of parks, gardens, flowers (especially jasmine; I'm a sucker for jasmine), a hummingbird, cute kids, and playgrounds. Oh, and I recommend Fatapple's, a restaurant at MLK and Rose.
Today Leonard and I took a jaunt around Brisbane, south of San Francisco. A sleepy town, but nice-looking. Quite a preponderance of bars on the main drag, I must say.
So, there you are. Recommended walks.
Leonard and I also watched the film Kind Hearts and Coronets (IMDB entry). It's quite good. Being meta-ists, Leonard and I laughed most at the part in which the protagonist forgets his framing device!
