San Francisco The Big Parade

For many years now I have wanted to go to San Francisco’s Gay Pride Parade and I am going tomorrow, we will fly out in the morning and be in SF by 12:30 or so,I can hardly wait. I haven’t been this excited since Paris, where by the way I went to the parade 2 years ago. I was great not a sophisticated production like the New York Parade, but lots of fun nun the less. We were there with friends from Kalamazoo who now live in Brussels. We bought Champagne and shared it with strangers and the joined in the parade with thousands of people from all over the world.  Maybe if Kalamazoo had a big parade people wouldn’t get up and leave…The Paris parade was kind of like the DC one a lot of people with banners displaying there particular concern or business marching down the street in various styles and degrees of dress or undress with a float of sorts thrown in here and there. Lots of fun though, it’s interesting how a parade makes people feel good. There are BIG smiles everywhere. The New York Parade is the most memorable one I’ve ever attended. It was a real production that went on for a long time. With NY style floats and lots of big time costumes and thousands of marchers for every cause and or product imaginable. I’m hoping SF will be a big deal like that one. If nothing else we will get lots of walking in. We won’t take any cabs and hope to get in a minimum of 10 miles a day. I will take some photos and post them here when we return. And we will eat in some cool outdoor café…Something we don’t do here to HOT and to many bugs…have a great weekend I will….