"I left my hearburn in San Francisco..."

"I left my heartburn in San Francisco." I was last there, April 2002. Got off the Greyhound from Vancouver at 4:00 AM - Market Street and the Tenderloin were both a kind of howling Wilderness at that hour. Deranged characters wailing into the night sidewalk near the Trans-Bay Terminal. City Hall Plaza was as far out as ever - those weird trees that grow there. Some decent guy warned me as to my safety. Then I headed up those steep, steep hills to the Haight - with all my damned luggage in tow. The Sun was coming up when I reached that Mythical Corner: Haight-Ashbury, and I had coffee. It was still too early to see all the runaways with their feet in the gutter, and various other street people; the kind of people I had loosely associated with back in 1990. I went down to the Cala Grocery (or is it Safeway, now, or Ralph's?) and "borrowed" one of their shopping carts. That took a helluva load off my tortured feet. Had an ecstatic promenade through ever-beautiful Golden Gate Park - what a masterpiece of landscape design. Backtracked, took in the view from on top of Buena Vista Park - took strategic measures to avoid the aggressive "cruisers." To each his own, but I swear they very nearly jump out of the bushes at you. From that park, the view across the Golden Gate of Marin County is awesome. I ended up walking down to that Catholic church on Market Street, near the Tenderloin again, and had a free meal. Finally checked out the Embarcadero - it's much nicer, lined with really fantastic palm trees now that they took the Embarcadero Freeway down. Strolled on back to the Trans-Bay terminal, and headed East, to Reno, Denver, Omaha, Rockford and Madison. I'll always love the place, but after about 10,000 miles in two weeks riding the Greyhound (West Palm Beach - Madison - Minneapolis - Winnipeg - Vancouver - Medford Oregon, then Southbound and and all the rest)... I can truly sing: "I left my Heartburn in San Francisco!" To think I may never eat at "Jack-in-the-Box" again... sighs. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.funcheap.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F04%2Fbuena-vista-park.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fsf.funcheap.com%2Fbuena-vista-park-trails-celebration-sf%2F&h=382&w=575&sz=73&tbnid=4piTfZWWHHD5AM%3A&tbnh=90&tbnw=135&zoom=1&usg=__g_B7hzDChM9_OiKs-bZErK7jw6Y%3D&docid=ftG4UkSHA-qA7M&sa=X&ei=NajHUfPLMsmsqQHkxoC4Ag&ved=0CDAQ9QEwAQ&dur=1505 http://www.aviewoncities.com/sf/goldengatepark.htm