One of the many things that Jefferson warned Lewis and Clark about was mastodons.

Last Sunday I went to the Sutro ruins. I never had heard of such a thing until my friend told me about them over lunch last week. So I went. It was sort of underwhelming, but I suppose San Francisco isn't really old enough to have interesting ruins.
























Tuesday I met a friend at the Palace of Fine Arts for a glass of wine. It was a nice. Looking on at the Palace and hearing of my friend's recent visit to Seattle got me thinking. The Space Needle was built for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, and the Palace was built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition. Although the Space Needle was built in a time with better construction technology, frankly, it's pretty lame while the Palace continues to amaze me.