Bay Area

was in 2001, when I made a trip with my doughter throughout the states in a 1982 Ford EcoVan, which I bought on eBay motors in front of the journey, still at home in Germany.
We did not all the SF-stuff, but cable car museum, fisherman’s wharf and Haight/Ashbury quarter alone was worth visiting. We had only 2 days, and I should go back asap :-)

As we left SF an old dream became true: Golden Gate Bridge! I was grown up in the former GDR, behind the “iron curtain”, and was all my youth dreaming of going over the GG!

I visited here for the first time 10 years ago, and fell in love with SF. I decided then and there that one day I was going to make my home here. I finally made it here 4 years ago and it was the best move I ever made. I miss my sweet home Chicago, but I feel more connected to the Bay Area. My father served in WW2, on the USS San Francisco, and he loved this town. I remember the stories he told when I was a kid about coming home from the South Pacific battles, and seeing the Golden Gate from the sea and knowing he was home. What a sight that must have been. Yeah…I belong here.

I love the Bay Area – been here all my life and I think I might just stay here for the rest of it. :-P

I lived in the Bay Area for 7 years and it was a great experience. I left New York in 1993, much to the chagrin of my family and friends, but in the end it changed my life in a very good way.

SF is a beautiful, vibrant city overflowing with history and culture and things to see; but beyond that I am both an unapologetic technofetishist and a gay man, so visiting here is like a hajj.