San Francisco.

I was in San Francisco for one week
visiting my friends Jeff and Sandy.

It was my first trip to California
and i was very excited about it.

Me and my wife Kathleen flew with Jet Blue
from J.F.K
to Oakland on a five and half hour long flight.

Jeff, Sandy their newly adapted, one and a half year dog Abigail,
welcomed us at three o`clock in the morning
and after two glasses of red wine they led us to our
spacious room overlooking at an amazingly beautiful garden.

We slept with the windows open breathing the fresh ocean air
and woke up Saturday morning
to a breakfast table full of fresh goodies right from the Farmers Market.

West Portal is a very nice
neighborhood as we soon discovered walking around
on this sunny-warm Autumn day,before heading to the
Ocean Beach.

Abbie was running around playing with all the dogs on the beach
while i was experiencing first hand the coldness of the
Pacific Ocean on my bare feet.

Jeff is not only a very good harmonica player and a dear friend,
he is an amazing cook as well, so after a long day on the beach
and walking around the nearby park we came home where
he started cooking the most delicious pork stew i have ever taste
accompanied with fresh delicious sallads,cheeses, wine and fruits.

Oh what a feast every day at their place it was!

Next days we discovered the Mission, the Castro and
the Twin Peaks districts
saw the California sea lions at the Beach Street ,
visited the redwod forest at Muir Woods
played with Abbie at Muir beach
crossed the Golden Gate Bridge on our way to
Sausalito with it`s Mediterranean Feel
was the setting mentioned by Otis Redding and
Steve Cropper in their 1967 tune "(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay."
San Francisco based band Santana had an instrumental song
called "Samba de Sausalito" on their 1973 album Welcome.

I am looking forward to have Jeff playing with us at BBKing`s
on Christmas Eve bringing back to
New York his wonderful energy and talent.