I found some more of those "Field Notes" little boxes in the #SanFrancisco Presidio like I blogged about a couple of weeks ago.
My friends were very patient as I dragged them from our strolling-route to seek and photo these little boxes. Why was I so determined? OK, I found one of these boxes years ago. It was obviously one of many; but I had no idea where to find the others. I kinda kept an eye out for other little boxes when I was in the Presidio. But they don't stand out. The one I spotted years ago was on top of a wooden fence; a little wooden box on top of a wooden fence…You more would think "why does that fencepost look funny" than "here is a mysterious hidden treasure." I suspected that I was blundering past these things without noticing them.
So this mystery had been bubbling away on a back burner of my brain for years. When my parents found that map almost-but-not-quite showed where to find more of the things, I perked up. And when that not-quite-map led me to the actual-true-map, I figured I should go find a few just to confirm that the mystery was really-truly solved.
Special bonus: on the way to the Field Note at the Presidio Main Base, I stumbled upon a Curry Up Now food truck. One of their food trucks used to come to my neighborhood once a week, but that was years ago. I missed their food, but not enough to go across town to wherever their trucks go nowadays. But I've always kept an eye out for their trucks. There was the time I spotted one at Fort Mason when I was on my way somewhere; and so when I was done, I came back to Fort Mason, but the truck was gone by then: Devastating. And there was the time I was walking to a political rally at Civic Center, but spotted one of their food trucks driving north on Van Ness. So I thought "I guess #TheResistance will have to get along without me for the next few minutes" and I detoured to follow the food truck in case it stopped nearby; but instead it (unsurprisingly) outpaced me, soon out of view and I gave up on following it and thus my revolutionary fervor was restored. Today's burrito was thus both spontaneous and long-anticipated.
