A Walk Down Memory Lane


Am borrowing one of Erica's entry types because this has been on my mind lately.

A friend from another site spent a few days in San Francisco last week, and shared all her wonderful adventures with us. These posts really took me down Memory Lane, for I once lived out in that area. Oh, it was only for a year, and not right IN the city, but about 40 miles north...close enough to go and enjoy it, but still in a small town atmosphere.
I fell in love while there...fell in love with THE CITY. When I hear Journey singing "When the lights go out in the city, and the sun shines on the bay, I wanna be there in my city....oh, oh, woh-oh-oh", I get a big lump in my throat.
I love San Francisco. The Golden Gate became MY bridge. The Pier became MY place. The whole area is amazing, and I didn't even begin to see as much as I wanted to the year we were there. I've not been able to get back since, and that was 17 years ago, but I am hoping to take my kids there in another year or so. My former S-I-L, and still sister-at-heart, lives there, and keeps extending invites for us to come and stay. Someday soon, I hope to be able to afford to take her up on that!

ANYWAY...all that said...My Memory Lane entry is to share MY San Francisco...or at least some of it. I wasn't as much a camerafanatic as I am now (it was my pre-kid life) so there aren't nearly as many pics as there will be the next time I go. But here are a few...of places near to my heart.







Rodeo Beach, under the bridge:




The Pier





(Fisherman's Wharf)


(You know me..I never pass up a carousel)

Lombard Street: the crookedest road in the world



That's for sure!

Now, I don't know how to do all those cutesy tags and things that Erica does, where others can post when they do an entry of like kind, but I would love to know about a place YOU have been that will always be special to you.
So, if you do an entry on it, please come let me know. I'd love to read it and see where "your heart" is!

Comments

He & Me + 3 said…
Very cool. I would love to eventually get to Cali one day. I have only been on the East coast. Never the West.
Beautiful pictures. I love the first one and the beach picture. Gorgeous.
January 10, 2010 at 8:54 PM
Melanie said…
I can't do posts like that, I get too choked up! If you so desire, Google a little place called Thun, Switzerland (pronounced "tune"). Yeah, a piece of me is still there. I have this quote under a picture of something in that city hanging in the entry to my house and it reads "You never really leave a place you love; part of it you take with you, leaving a part of yourself behind." May our memories be long.
January 10, 2010 at 10:20 PM
E @ Scottsville said…
Awwwww, you can borrow mine any day, Robin. I gave you a goofy shout out on my blog today. I hope you don't hate me. It was all said in good fun. I wanted some of my readers to hop over and meet you. =0)
January 14, 2010 at 9:24 AM
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