Ah, the Fog...

[sfhogman]

Well, it's been pretty warm here in San Francisco over the past week...85 or 90 degrees downtown. Much complaining, San Franciscans fainting, doing faceplants on the sidewalks, etc.
As some know, I live in the western side of town, about four blocks from the ocean. With the sea breeze, it rarely gets past 85 or so...still, there has been much complaining and kvetching from my pale neighbors.
So...this morning I got up to find that after an entire week the fog has rolled in! My whole neighborhood is wet and dank, just as it's supposed to be. The whole area smells like the ocean.
What happens is that as the interior valley heats up, the cool wet air over the ocean is drawn in through the Golden Gate, which is the only gap in the Coast Range for hundreds of miles, both North and South.
Works for me. I'm gonna fire up the Triumph and scoot down the Pacific Coast Highway.

Ta,
Jeff

 

[ned]

Yep, also like that side of the town….especially if I got to Thang Long at 41st & Juda.

 

[Colonialgirl]

You can have Frisco, its good point is the cable cars, the rest is over rated and too expensive.

 

[sfhogman]

You can have Frisco, its good point is the cable cars, the rest is over rated and too expensive.

The cable cars are also overrated and too expensive.
The restaurants, however...

 

[Jeepnik]

Hey Hogman. Anything ever happen with the Cliff House?

 

[Gator89]

When I lived in Turlock, if the temperature in the valley was 100, the coast was foggy and cold. If the valley was foggy and cool, the coast was sunny and warm.

 

[sfhogman]

Hey Hogman. Anything ever happen with the Cliff House?

Nope. Supposedly the Park Service is taking bids. This after screwing the Hountalas family over.

 

[WAYNO]

Ya know, in spite of the political overtones that have infected the entire West Coast, I very much have enjoyed myself in San Francisco. I spent a day with sfhogman some time back, and got the tour of my life, including dinner at the Cliff House.

The Coast Highway, be it in California, Oregon or Washington, is magnificent.

 

[Gator89]

Ya know, in spite of the political overtones that have infected the entire West Coast, I very much have enjoyed myself in San Francisco. I spent a day with sfhogman some time back, and got the tour of my life, including dinner at the Cliff House.

The Coast Highway, be it in California, Oregon or Washington, is magnificent.

There is nothing in nature more scenic than Yosemite in the spring time.

Yosemite in the fall is just a bunch of rocks.

 

[wolfsong]

There is nothing in nature more scenic than Yosemite in the spring time.

Yosemite in the fall is just a bunch of rocks.

But, oh, what magnificent rocks they are!

 

[ProfessorWes]

Loved the year I spent in Monterey, back during my stint in the Army. Sad to see what's become of the state since.

 

[WAYNO]

I wintered over at Ft. Ord (Monterey). The weather was such, I could have been in San Francisco or Astoria.

 

[Cholo]

Works for me. I'm gonna fire up the Triumph and scoot down the Pacific Coast Highway.

I'd never get tired of that cool temperature foggy scenic ride! I'm envious right now It's so unique that there's nothing like it in the US!

I took this pic a few years ago just south of the Bixby Creek Bridge. That's the Pacific Ocean under that fog. The chill felt good after the 108*+ in the interior.

 

[woodsy]

Well, this is just his idea of a joke, but Mark Twain once said, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

 

[Bob Wright]

There is just something about fog that is enchanting to me. Sounds are deadened, and a sort of hush falls around you so that you sort of want to hold your breath so as not to disturb the silence. This, no matter where you encounter it. I've driven east out of Louisville, Kentucky early mornings, and atop a hill been in bright clear sun light, only to see a dense fog layer in the valley. And "braced for the impact" as I drove into that fog bank. And seen fog rolling down the Mississippi River from up north on still mornings.

Just a brief time of magic, to me.

Bob Wright

 

[KIR]

Ah, yes, the great restaurants...only 500 miles to L.A.

 

[jimbo1096]

Yea, I love the fog too, except this morning when I hit it on the Atchafalaya Expressway just before the Morganza spillway and there suddenly appeared an 18 wheeler in both east bound lanes. It was thick as soup for a couple of miles.
I lived in the San Diego area for 16 years and enjoyed all the things to do, places to go, camping, desert riding, and trips up the coast and to Yosemite, the Redwoods, and we used to make the winery tours in Sonoma and Napa Valley and Paso Robles every couple of years. Loved my time there. Just don't think I would anymore, even if I could afford to..

 

[sfhogman]

Ah, yes, the great restaurants...only 500 miles to L.A.

Ummm...San Francisco to LA is 400 miles....

 

[Colonialgirl]

I wintered over at Ft. Ord (Monterey). The weather was such, I could have been in San Francisco or Astoria.

AH YES; FORT ORD; When I was there they STILL had a load of WW2 barracks in use along with the OLD mess halls. One advantage was that the OLD barracks were closer to the rifle ranges than the newer ones.

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

Someone beat me to the Mark Twain quote, but I have my own takeoff. First time I went to SFO was summer, 1969. Four of us got into an Austin Healey and an MGA and drove up there, tops down, of course. It was pretty warm about a half hour before sunset when we left. We went across a chunk of the Mojave Desert on our way up the hill to Tehachapi, down into the Central Valley where it was still 85 deg or so a couple of hours after dark. Until we got to Palo Alto--the goal--and the cold was trying to sneak out of SFO. We took a couple of hours to go take a quick look at "The City" as a college roommate liked to call his home town. Then we turned around and headed south as fast as we could to find some warmth.

Mark Twain was right!

Rick C

 

[Bob Wright]

AH YES; FORT ORD; When I was there they STILL had a load of WW2 barracks in use along with the OLD mess halls. One advantage was that the OLD barracks were closer to the rifle ranges than the newer ones.

WW II barracks? When I was at Ft. Ord we had deluxe barracks, they were painted on the interior walls and there were hangers at each toilet for a roll of toilet paper. And sometimes there was a roll on the hanger. The ones at Camp Roberts were somewhat less deluxe, while those at Hunter Liggett were non-existent. At Hunter Liggett the frame was wood with a canvas squad tent stretched over. Field mice would pop up through knot holes in the flooring.

Delightful place.

Bob Wright

 

[KIR]

Ummm...San Francisco to LA is 400 miles....

I make some interesting side trips...