Thursday 07/16/2026
Today we had set aside for an excursion to the City, to see the exhibit on The Etruscans at the Legion of Honor. This was a good exhibit, well presented and full of interesting objects. The curators had borrowed famous pieces from other museums to give a portrait of an interesting culture that we don’t know about today because the Romans wrote the histories and left them out.
From there we found lunch at a Chinese dumpling house on Balboa street. It was a clear day, or seemed to be, so we drove up toward Twin Peaks and found out that the sightseeing loop around the vista point on Twin Peaks is closed to motor vehicles. Probably has been for a long time but us dumb tourists wouldn’t know.
I took a tech squad call in the afternoon, and puttered around with my AI code. After supper, there was a video in the auditorium about–the Etruscans. There is a plan to run an excursion in a bus, up to the Etruscan exhibit, next week. (Joanne and I are too snooty to go in a bus with everyone else, we had to do it on our own.) So this was a video lecture, quite well done, about the Etruscans. We recognized quite a few of the art pieces in the video as being ones we had seen today.
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