Ramada Limited

San Francisco is blessed with a great mixture of characters from fabulous cross-dressers to street preachers and those who experience better living through chemistry. You have to just hit the streets, provided you are street savvy enough to do so. This little square of California is truly alive and it just gives you the general feeling that something cool is happening. We met an old woman who told us of an affair she once had with Salvadore Dali. That just doesn't happen every day in other parts of America.My husband and I were in a Korean bar and some guy rushed in and offered to sell a wooden figurine of Confucius for $20. My husband, after a few Korean beers, said, " I'll give you $10." The guy agreed and took off quickly, leaving a gorgeous statue carved out of a single piece of hard wood. The bar-owner wrapped it in paper for us and we lugged it back to our friends' apartment. En route, we accidently got off in "The Tenderloin" and in spite of a few scarey moments, we everntually made it back with Confucious in hand. We still have him.