{"id":235,"date":"2009-01-20T01:27:05","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T09:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/?p=235"},"modified":"2009-01-20T01:29:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T09:29:39","slug":"san-francisco-sketchcrawl-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/san-francisco-sketchcrawl-21\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco SketchCrawl #21"},"content":{"rendered":"

For me SketchCrawl events are more than the participation of the event itself, they are also opportunities to discover a little more of San Francisco and\u00a0 any other location I may be visiting. I believe I am not the only one participating in this discovery. I often hear people say “this is the first time I have been here” or “I always wanted to come here but for some reason have not.”<\/p>\n

This last SketchCrawl was once again a discovery, I live about one hour away from San Francisco and after all these years of driving thru the Golden Gate and the Waldo tunnel (the tunnel with a rainbow painted on it) I just cant help to continue to marvel at the beautiful views from various locations as well as other structures \/ buildings. Strangely enough I have not fully explored all the areas of the city as much as I would like, however I hope to be able to spend more time doing so in the future, so that I can concentrate more on the actual event of sketching.<\/p>\n

This time I thought it would be great If I could drive to the Legion of Honor<\/a> museum, and perhaps sketch outside and around the area. I also read that if you pay to enter the Legion of Honor museum, you can also enter the de Young<\/a> museum with the same ticket on the same day.<\/p>\n

I spent some time a day or two before the event analyzing the area via google maps, to figure out what path to take to get to the museum, so I was technically all set to get there, except I didn’t really get there (oh, I drove by it on the way to the meeting point but didn’t stop – I ran out of time).<\/p>\n

Back to the story… after I crossed the Golden Gate into San Francisco and was driving on Lincoln Blvd (part of the 49 Mile Scenic Drive<\/a>) heading towards the Legion of Honor museum. I noticed a small parking area to the right of the road with what appeared to be a path leading to the coast, so I thought hmm since I have never been here… lets stop for a bit and check this area out.\u00a0 It was an opportunity to view the Golden Gate from the opposite side of Fort Point<\/a>. The view is nice and there are a couple of trails, one leading down to the ocean.<\/p>\n

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I managed to do only two sketches, I spend a good portion of the day just enjoying the view, going down the trail with a sense of adventure and then working my way up a lot slower, meeting along the way equally challenged individuals resting, for once it was nice to be in the shade… no fog on that day.<\/p>\n

Below is the view from the top of the trail, facing west towards the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

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On the way down the trail there is a viewing area, where you are able to see most of the Golden Gate.<\/p>\n

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If you know of any other places to discover, please share!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For me SketchCrawl events are more than the participation of the event itself, they are also opportunities to discover a little more of San Francisco and\u00a0 any other location I may be visiting. I believe I am not the only one participating in this discovery. I often hear people say “this is the first time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3,10],"tags":[160,159,67,162,158,161,29,271,272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageswithin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}