Haight & Ashbury

While we were in the neighborhood (the Golden Gate Park is pretty close) we decided to drop by the Haight & Ashbury intersection. This is the location of the 1967 hippie revolution. Click on the link if you want to read more about it.

It was a pretty neat area and neighborhood. Of course we had to get some Ben & Jerry's ice cream while we were there.. Seriously though, after walking from the park we needed a pick-me-up. Half Baked and Coffee, Coffee, Buzz, Buzz, Buzz was what we snacked on. Joe wanted to get Half Baked and keep with the theme of the neighborhood.

There were lots of souvenir shops and some cool vintage stores and even a Cannabis Company store. No, they did not sell anything illegal, or at least that's what the sign said just inside the door. When we left the store clerk said something like "peace out, thanks for hanging man." No joke. Only at Haight & Ashbury!

Just up the street was the Grateful Dead house at 710 Ashbury. This was the house where the Grateful Dead lived from 1966 - 1968. Those two years included the drug bust of 1967 and the Summer of Love. No, I didn't know all this, I had to Google it.

Our Saturday adventure is not done yet. We also dropped by Alamo Square to see the painted ladies. Once again, we were in the neighborhood. I'll post those pictures tomorrow.