Painted Ladies, Hippieviertel Haight Ashbury und Golden Gate Park

Thursday, October 5th, 2023, day 5

Today was another beautiful day, cloudless and sunny and 30°. We took the bus to Alamo Square because there are the “Painted Ladies” (7 side-by-side Victorian-style houses, painted in pastel colors, which also reflect the wealth of the California Gold Rush era. Also “Seven Sisters” or “Postcard -Row”) and because from there you have a spectacular view of the modern city behind it. Then we walked from there to Cole Valley and further along Haight Street into the so-called hippie district, past Kurt Cobain's house on the Haight and Ashbury, had a nice espresso on the street in front of a café and were at the end of the Haight Walked into Golden Gate Park. Wonderful weather, fragrant eucalyptus trees, children playing, dogs running around, a little bit of everything. Then there is a tree there that was named Janis Joplin Tree. (who wants to know what Janis Joplin did on this tree in the “Summer of love” 1967), about “Hippie Hill” in the park, where up to 100,000 hippies camped in June 1967, attracted by a “counterculture” and cheap rents in Haight-Ashbury to found the new movement, which also marked the birth of psychedelic rock, although psychedelic, weed, flower power and cultural rebellion had existed in “Hashbury” since the early/mid 60s.

Then we head back towards the N-Judah tram at the foot of UCSF, not without enjoying the wonderful orange chicken (see also yesterday's post) in the Panda Express one more time (possibly one last time for a long time). And the note in the Chinese fortune cookie landed a direct hit.

In the evening we went to friends' gardens for a little BarBQ celebration. The taxi just brought us safely to the hotel