On Valentine's Day, the husband, baby and I took a stroll through the heart of the Presidio. After wandering around a bit (we'd forgotten our map) we found the Visitor's Center, went in and oriented ourselves, then headed off on the Ecology Trail, which starts just behind the Visitor's Center and climbs up through a small pine forest, to a point overlooking the Bay and the northern part of the City. A lovely short walk, a bit difficult with a normal sidewalk stroller, but we managed--and the baby slept peacefully the whole time.
Talk about a hidden part of San Francisco: we were alone on that trail from beginning to end. I knew that the network of short trails in this former military post had expanded markedly in recent years, but didn't know just how pleasant and secluded they were until we found ourselves exploring one of them with no one else in sight, even though it was Sunday. When we left the Ecology Trail we stumbled on some old military housing; some of those brick houses, probably built in the nineteenth century, remind me of houses in the Midwest and the East Coast; they look like no other houses in San Francisco, which also lent to the atmosphere of "otherness" and isolation that I felt throughout our walk. Then we actually stumbled on a path called Lover's Lane...overall, not a bad way to celebrate the day.
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