TRANSPORT pages

From the very first news of a 50th birthday party for Damiana at China Live on Broadway in San Francisco, we planned this as a “transportation trip” from north of Santa Rosa (where the difficult driving begins) to the City and back. There's a wonderful new capability in town: the SMART train, and its schedule works well with the Golden Gate Ferry from Larkspur to the Ferry Building at the foot of Market.

So with plenty of pre-planning, the downloading of two new apps (one of which didn't work properly, Surprise!)

   And let it be said right here (as Rochelle said it): every single public-facing person we encounter, train driver, conductors, ferry staffers, restaurant greeters and servers, and wonderful Maria who saved our butts at our accommodation (another failed app; why am I not surprised?) treated us with courtesy, humor, and humanity.