October 24, 2006
Haight & Ashbury
On 10/17 we went back up to SF, and this time Timber came with us. We started out in the Mission District at a Taqueria called, imaginatively enough, La Taqueria. We had heard that this was a great place and they did not dissapoint. Timber and I split a carnitas burrito (our standard across all Mexican food joints) while Bob and Sugar had a carnitas taco and a carne burrito. We all agreed that the food was good and that we would come back. After our lunch we walked around the Mission for a little while doing some shopping before heading over to Mitchell's Ice Cream. The last time I tried to come to Mitchell's there was a line out the door but not this time (mid day on a Tuesday). The ice cream was very good and I would highly recommend it. After our ice cream treat we headed over to an Indian cloth store called "Bombay Bazaar (Indian Groceries/Videos)" so that Sugar could find some material she was looking for. The lady working in the store drove a hard bargain and we didn't end up getting anything there. But I saw that there was an Indian ice cream shop next door and decided to check it out. I ended up getting a chickoo ice cream bar while Timber got the saffron flavored ice cream. Mine was decent while hers was not. My brother described it best. He described it as the taste of water from a warm water hose when you first turn it on. Yup, warm water hose water is exactly what saffron ice cream tastes like. After that bad ice cream experience we went to Tartine Bakery which is supposed to be readlly good. We got some Sharfen Burger chocolate pudding, a pumpkin tea cake, an eclair, and a few other miscellaneous items. They were all fantastic. After our snack we went back to Timber's car to see that it was in the process of getting towed away. Here's how the conversation went:
Timber: Hey, I think my car is being towed away.
Me and Bob: Nah, that is probably some else's car.
Timber: No, REALLY, they are about to tow my car away.
Me and Bob: Oh Shit! Let's go stop them!
And we ran as fast as we could to get over there before they could drive off with Timber's car. Once we got there my brother yelled at the guys (3 of them) to drop the car. There was a guy working on the back of Timber's car that looked like a bum that said "You don't know what the fuck you're talking about", and the fat guy running the operation said "oh Shit!" really loud. We talked to them for a minute fore the girls caught up. As it turned out, the place where we parked turned into a traffic lane during commuting hours (starting at 4 PM) and we got back to the car around 4:12 PM. But luckily they had to drop the car and we only had to deal with a $60 parking ticket instead of having to get Timber's car out of a tow yard! After dodging that bullet we put the car on ice at the Metreon parking garage and checked out the Apple Store in Union Square before catching the bus up to Haight & Ashbury (hippie-land). While we were walking around on Haight we ran across the Adidas Concept Store that Timber knew about. She said that they sometimes have a DJ playing music while people shop and it is the kind of stuff you normally don't see from Adidas. So we checked it out and I can understand why it is a concept store, given that most "concepts" don't make it out to the public. :-) But I got a pretty cool hat from there. After that we did a little more shopping before having dinner at Cha Cha Cha. The food was only average. On the way back to the car we saw a bunch of dirty hippies that looked like they were organizing to try to rob people. And on the bus ride back to the Metreon Bob and Sugar saw some people doing cocaine on the back of the bus. Talk about a fun and exciting day in SF! On our way out of town we hit Tango Gelato which put us in the unenviable position of having had ice cream 4 times in a day. Never again!