Usually, when you return from a great overseas trip friend ask “what were the highlights?”. There were many from our Lisbon-Israel journey. Strange sideways glances are excused if one highlight was a gin and tonic. But, hey, if it’s the best Gin and Tonic you ever had, well that’s cause for a minor celebration. At Chakra restaurant in Jerusalem. Monkey 47 gin, peppercorns and pear slices. wow. ( sorry for the mushy photo)
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My morning routine. Elevator Fairmont lobby to parking level. Though Cafe Cento. Get first of 3 cable cars going downhill. (Powell, Powell, California). Huffing, puffing back up I get a bit nostalgic. It’s around 1950 (yeah, Ok that was the neanderthal age) I was in San Francisco with buddies from either high school (Thacher) or college. Friend of one of the buddies had invited us up to hisher apartment on California. To a kid from Salt Lake City, this was the most sophisticated, straight out of the movies, place on the planet. I try to remember wich apartment it was. North side – sure of that. Down to four choices:
Norm's B.L.O.G.(Bucket List - Optimistic Geezer) 
Great Norman. I remember going to “grown up” apartments and thinking I had gone to heaven. The three of us had a one room apartment with three small beds on Clay and Larkin with a view of the top of the Bay Bridge from the fire escape. Good times. Sally >
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