Another Toot With Louie in San Francisco

No, no, a different kinda toot: see https://www.lloydkahn.com/2013/02/17/a-toot-in-san-francisco/.

Louie and I went over in the morning, went to the Cliff House Bistro at the beach. got a couple of Irish Coffees at the bar, then a great breakfast sitting at an ocean-view table AND the surf was big. There were maybe 50 surfers out, peaks everywhere, and everyone was getting rides. “We’re in ’em,” said Louie as breakfast was served, a salmon fishermen’s expression for being in the midst of a school of salmon.

We went into the unique vintage camera obscura (anyone see “Tim’s Vermeer” documentary?), then to the Academy of Sciences in the park to see the spectacular “Skulls” exhibit, then dinner that night at Camino, the wood-fired restaurant in Oakland. For desert we stopped at Mel’s on Lombard, split an, ahem, chocolate malt, and played Otis Redding on the juke box. We’re so bad.

About Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:

One Response to Another Toot With Louie in San Francisco

  1. Tim's Vermeer was a really insightful documentary; it deserves a viewing by anyone expressing an interest in art, history, or science.

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