Tilden Park

There is a place for you.

     So much of life in San Francisco is about status and money. That's because the population is so class conscious. I could go on a long polemic saying why it is so, but whether or not I name the cause it is currently, and there is nothing to do about it.

     People get in their heads that everything should cost money, and the more money which is dumped on your child, the better life will be.

     There is one place, however, where that is not true, and that is the East Bay. The problem is, the quality of living is not nearly as nice in many respects. But, you can visit.

     There are a hundred places I highly recommend visiting in the East Bay, but the one I just went to reminds me totally of why the eternal hunger of the class conscious for that One Thing I Have That You Don't is so misguided.

     Sit beneath the shade of a redwood next to a bubbling creek; walk a wooded path to a lake; ride a miniature steam train around rolling hills. Can you buy any of this with all your money? Can you fence it off and declare it exclusively yours?

     There are several days worth of visits to this park.
     It is hot, but, densely wooded in places and cools down in the afternoon during the summer.
     You need a car to get there and bridge fare to get back to the City.
     Go, you'll remember that you are not savage and this is not a fight to the death.