A New Day

Ok... I must admit that the detour to San Fran was not so bad... The weather was fantastic for this time of year. The Chinese Consulate was quick and relatively easy. All that worry and fretting for naught. My cousins were fantastic and MY girlfriend is forever supportive and loving (R U Reading this) Any way here are the details.... Saturday left me with a lot of questions and a few doubts...
Ok so my diversion to san fransisco was not so bad after all. I got to stay with my cousins Michael and Carma, who took fantastic care of me. They put me up on a moments notice, had a car at my disposal, ate well what more could a wondering photog want or need. It seemed that even with all that happened that the cosmos was greeting me with open arms and telling me all is well… I will provide you with sunny skies, warm weather and good friends. Monday, Michael gave me his car and I made a bee line to the consulate. Easy to find on Geary and Laguna, the consulate is in this beautiful old vintage SF architecture of the 20s-30s. The visa office is one room with a hundred chairs 9 booths and about 1000 people of all persuasions looking to uptain the golden pass to the Middle Kingdom. I was number 84. They were on 42… I thought this is going to take a 1000 years! What a drama king! No more than an hour later my number was called I go to the booth, the lady looks at my application and looks at me and says, this is wrong. Here we go again I thought. No worries she hands me another form to fill out correctly. With her guidance, I completed the application a little nervous this wasn’t going to happen…yikes I worry way too much… I mean the forces of good were with me and wouldn’t let anything stop this… sometimes I am amazed that all this from the decision to go to now has been like it was meant to be. I decided to pay the extra $30 for same day delivery and later that afternoon I had one 6 month visa to the Peoples Republic of China in my hand… amazing… truly amazing… I get back to M and Cs apartment and it being such a wonderful day I walked the 2 blocks from the apt to the beach to take in on last look at this country…staring out at the ocean I thought tomorrow I will be on the other side of this immense body of agua…dude… I couldn’t waste the moment so I took the camera to record San Fransisco like I usually never see it …perfect as you can see, just another day on the beach…this ones for Liz who took The Chairman Meow in to her home…. Ain’t she cute!! A walk on the beach and a last look at the Beach Chalet a 30s WPA mural project that is now a kind of walk in museum… as you can see this is world class work. The artists studied with Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera. The scenes are from around the area. At one time the Richmond area was farms and beach. How things have changed ehhh … these are for Kitty. A better girlfriend and confidant I will never have. She’s doing a mural project with her kids so I thought I’d share some pics with her… stunning work…what an amazing day… oh did I tell you? I rearranged my flight back to LA and to Shanghai and yep it happened like it was meant to be…