Travel to San Francisco – Amateur Traveler Episode 159 Transcript

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Chris: And I would recommend, if you have kids and time, check out the Exploratory Museum in the Palace of Fine Arts, which is a wonderful hands-on science museum.

Richard: Chris, for my money, that’s the coolest museum in town, I mean, kids or no kids.

Chris: Well, yeah, if you are a kid like me!

Richard: It’s a wonderful place.

Chris: Kids of all ages!

Richard: Exactly. Well formulated. Yeah, I love that spot.

Chris: The other thing that we haven’t talked about, that I think most tourists don’t know about, is the The Wave Organ.

Richard: Oh, that’s right, I walked right past it.

Chris: I think you were just about to.

Richard: Yes, thank you. You’ll notice, as you walk along the waterfront there, that there’s a long stretch of what looks like a typical urban park, but it’s right along a yacht harbor. On the northern side of that harbor, towards the Bay, there’s – it’s a little hard to describe – you’re on Yacht Road, basically walk around the western edge of the yacht harbor out on to the spit of land that’s looping out towards the east from the shoreline, and just keep walking east on this spit. You’re walking through a parking lot, you’re walking through some gates that look like maybe you shouldn’t be walking through them, but don’t worry, it’s fine. Just keep walking until you can’t walk anymore, and you’ll find this strange little “Mm, what is it?” Something that looks like it’s submerged…

Chris: I was hoping you could describe it!

Richard: Something that looks like the ruins of Atlantis. There are chunks of marble, there are pedestals, and capitals of old columns, there are bits of old tombstones, but arranged clearly, not just thrown down there, arranged like a mini park. There are places to sit, there are different levels to hop across, but the most interesting thing about it is that there are these strange, what look like concrete covered submarine periscopes, poking up and out from various locations. And what these are, these are tubes that go down into the water, through the rocks and open into the bay, and what you are standing on is a large experimental musical instrument. The sound of the bay, the movement of the water, pushes water through the tubes and makes the most – have you been out there, Chris?

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