Ah, San Francisco.  This is my fourth visit here, and first time not staying with my grandparents (they live in nearby Berkeley).  So this will be the first time I actually get to see the night life here.  The ethnographer in me loves to study the gay night life in each city I go in so that I might better appreciate our own gay night life in Little Rock.  Ha.

Heres a few pictures I took from Coit Tower:

Alcataz: notice how close it is to the mainland (above and below). Scary.

Looking west from Coit Tower. From here you can see Golden Gate Bridge (center right) and the famous City Lights bookstore (bottom left).  Notice how the clouds have as much prominence as the earth in this picturean indication of what makes San Francisco great: the weather.

Looking south from Coit Tower. In the foreground you can see that people have managed to not only slip coins through the class but have them land on the ledge.  On top of the pennies there is a Philippines dollar coin. In the background is downtown San Francisco.