Tiburon: Be Flexible & Select Your View

Monday Oct 6 was one of the most gorgeous days – sunny and the mid-70s – which was perfect for a ferry ride to Tiburon.

After walking past the Carnival cruise ship and hopping on the ferry, we crossed the bay past Alcatraz and Angel Island (which is currently a beautiful State Park for hiking/camping but used to be both a fishing/ hunting site for coastal Miwok tribe members thousands of years ago, a Civil War US Army post, as well as a detention/ interrogation station for Chinese/ other Asians immigrants from 1910 to 1940) before arriving in Tiburon:

We walked through the super cute town of Tiburon, past all the 100+ year old boat houses that have been converted into shops, down to Sam’s for what we thought was going to be a peaceful, relaxing vista-filled lunch on the waterfront. But right as we ordered a drink and some lunch, a very loud large crane on the water blocking our view started spurting out diesel fumes.

Which gave us a perfect opportunity to learn a valuable lesson: Be flexible and adapt to the changes around us by selecting our own view! In other words, we cancelled our order and shifted to a cute (and tasty) cafe, Salt & Pepper, in an alley in town.

After lunch, we took a stroll down Shoreline Park, past the stinky sanitation plant to the beautiful tower for some picturesque views of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge.

After a quick 10 minute reboot on a park bench (don’t be so quick to judge all those who are sleeping on park benches!)

Raquel walked up to the historic church for a view of Tiburon, Belvedere, the Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Island, and downtown San Francisco.

By the time we got back to our place, the sun was setting and we had a spectacular view of the full moon glowing in the evening San Francisco sky. What a gorgeous sight!

Funny true story: Ben’s university t-shirts help us meet all sorts of wonderful people – like Reed – who was in the same year as Ben from HBS who was heading to Tiburon on the same ferry to visit his folks!