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	We made friends with these birds that run up and down the beach, back and forth with each wave, close enough to get their freshly delivered food, but cautious enough to avoid getting wet.
Typical Bay Area beach weather: overcast with a chilly breeze. This is November, but it could have easily been July or February.
	Half Moon Bay, an hour's drive south of San Francisco. Quaint.
Mavericks, a notorious point where only the best surfers dare to surf when, a few times a year, the waves get big, sometimes over 30 feet high.   Looking forward.
	We didn't know it at the time, but we were there for opening day of Mavericks' surf season. Though it looked rather "pacific" from where we stood, I found some photos of big waves being surfed that day.
Backing up to Half Moon Bay, this house had flora typical to the area, a sturdy, windblown pine of some sort and a thick carpet of ice plant thriving in the sand.   Our free upgrade to a Jeep proved worthwhile.
	Back in the city, a Filipino Masonic temple near South Park, the center of SF's Media Gulch during the dot com days of the late 90s.
Fun colors in Chinatown.
	Does the gardener/sculptor who works at this thousand-square-foot million-dollar-house get hazard pay?
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