My feet are so tired right now. I just did one of many Brad guided walking tours of the area. Today's led me down to Market ST and to Piers 1 thru 15. Some observations for the day.

• San Francisco is not that clean, but they do try. Everywhere I went smelled like Mr Clean, so I guess the illusion of clean is just as good as being spotless


• Nothing in stores here is cheaper than in Canada. Probably because of the low Canadian dollar. When I was in the Virgin Mega-Store, CD's were more than CD's in Canada before the conversion.


• People in the States may be fatter which is helpful because I could find my pant size, but they aren't any taller. Why can't I be big and tall. Why is it either or?


• Children must accompany adults at all times


• The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is rather nice. It had some nice pieces that I enjoyed looking at and some that I didn't enjoy looking at. I almost vomitted looking at one. It was suppose to be "living art" I guess. The artist had ripped pieces of the canvas out and served them on plates. Not so bad but there were blood and guts in the gaps in the painting. It was a little disturbing.


• If you stop and stare a piece of art long enough eventually a crowd will form around it. At this point you can go off an laugh.


• There really is a Pablo Picasso-esque painting of Bart Simpson


• It really sucks when it is cloudy


• There is a Starbucks and/or a Wells Fargo ATM every 50 feet


• It costs a quarter to go to the bathroom on the street