tadaima again

LAX-PHL-SFO-PHL-LIS-PHL-LGA-PHL-DUB-PHL-DUB-PHL-LAX and home again.

here are a few highlights from while i was away. . .

somewhere in between

just got in from SFO and now it is time to go to bed at 8am. this time tomorrow i hope to be in a new (new to me) country. hope you have/had a Happy 4th as well as all the other days in July. we will talk about august August when it gets here. it was a beautiful day in San Francisco yesterday or as i like to call it . . . San Francisco. i did hear some live Venezualin music at the Yerba Buena Gardens, had a delicious Beard Papa cream puff in the park while laying in the sun, had some chow fun from Chinatown for lunch, and small piece of sourdough bread from the market at the Ferry Building as a snack during last night's red-eye. more with photos when i get home which may not be for another week.

homeward bound

another fun time in San Francisco on wednesday. more stories, photos and videos when i get home tonite. . . i think it is friday?

HOME again.  guess who i met in the Philadelphia airport and then talked with on my flight home to LA?  i will give you a hint . . . the World's Greatest Athlete.

hard to believe that was 32 years ago.  i hope i thanked him for taking the time to talk with me.  one of my co-workers asked if had met any other famous people in my 20 years of flight attending (if there is such a word).  yes, i have met a few. here are a few favorites.  hmmm, who is the most famous star i've met?  she is one of the most beautiful and most famous and most recognized woman in the world (not sure if that grammar was correct)(not even sure how to correct whatever it was i was trying to say) but when i met her she was not so famous. i think i will find the photos she autographed and scan them in before revealing her name. then there was that guy who washed up on a deserted island after he had AIDS and after he played the piano in FAO Shwartz and that was a long time after he and his bosom buddy had a tv show.  Batman was nice but which Batman did i meet?  who was that radio DJ in Alaska on his way to his home in West Virginia?

i think he played in movie about a wedding but it is Greek to me what the title was.

i am not sure if it was Wayne or Garth but he and his friends were enjoying their

flight home to Chicago. he told me one of the funniest jokes.  enough for now.

the sounds of summer . . . and more

this past thursday morning i walked to Japantown in San Francisco on my way to see the Painted Ladies in Alamo Square Park.  i thought the sound of the sprinklers sounded like summer.  and then Marco and Polo showed up . . .

a Tanabata wish from Japantown . . . i'd like a baboon and a boat.

the Painted Ladies.  

that was Day 2 of my 4-day trip.  more photos from Day 1 in San Francisco later.  now i am home in LA on an easy 2-day trip.  tomorrow, i fly back to Philadelphia. still not sure what i will do while waiting to start another 4-day trip on wednesday. i am thinking of going to Manhattan on tuesday just for the day.  it has been awhile since i have been in New York City.

4-day is over, 2-day tomorrow

if all goes well, i will be updating my blog with a story or two and photo or two or three from San Francisco sunday afternoon (my tomorrow). there will be a little video of two Golden Labradors in Alamo Park. it is cute. i think one was named Marco and the other Polo. and hopefully tomorrow my mac.com mail will be working. i haven't been able to access it from the road in a few days. tonikaku, more when i get home tomorrow, sunday.