[levimaes]

Sleep over and party with the other tourists at the Fisherman's Wharf hostel; Wake up to the a calm, detached serenity within the city that gives the Marina district's urbsn calm refuge a run for it's money. Meet a stunning New Yorker. Sweep her off her feet, literally, and swaddle her to place of, more, our own. Watch her later disappear, her a sugar cube, into your teacup; meet another from Texas whose taken to your dumb, musical pining, there in the dining hall. Carry her too. Scale an apartment building to watch the stars and muse on how, maybe she should switch majors to math, maybe. These stars, never a spectacle for a Texan, but here lending to me a perfectly stunning, halcyon glow over the whole situation, after all this time royally without romance, a cliffside's breeze before a warm washing Pacific sunset. All at the Fisherman's Wharf hostel...

[rblion]

Funny thing. I met a beautiful woman from Melbourne, Australia there while watching seals. We spent the whole day together, she had tickets to the aquarium so we went and then I got her a clam chowder bread bowl for the first time. We Uber'd to Golden Gate Park and walked over the Haight and bar hopped. I got her a Moscow Mule (she never had one and now that's her new favorite drink) and we got real cozy. Her old friend from Australia who she is staying with met me and said we look good together and our meeting story is very romantic. She gave me a goodnight kiss after one more drink in Union Square at a swanky bar called Rye. I got on the last BART back to my friend's house with a heavy heart...I really wanted to spend the night with her but it was better if we didn't. She wanted to see me again and I wanted to see her again.

We hung out for a few hours today too. We met up in Chinatown around the Financial District in the Mission area where we laid out in the park and held hands while talking about life and work. She was cold so wore my alpaca sweater. After we ate some amazing Mexican food and then got to go up one of the tallest buildings in the city where one of her friends had an office. We had coffee up there and talked about the Bay Area while looking around at all the buildings in every direction! After that we got a tour of Golden Gate Bridge and the hills around it around sunset. We took some more pictures together. I got the three of us some burgers and I had to say goodbye one more time.

Tomorrow we are going to hang out ALL DAY and then go to Alcatraz the day after and then rent a car to camp together at Yosemite.

What. The. Fuck. She is gorgeous, a social worker. I notice a lot of people looking at us, girls especially. Guys checking her out and trying to talk to her, a female bartender at an Irish pub giving me props.

I got a lot more stories too but I'm a little stoned right now off some California weed and going to go to bed. Gotta catch the BART tomorrow from Pleasant Hill to meet her again. :)

I love this city.