Mollie and I did make it back over to San Francisco once more during our recent adventure in the Bay Area. We drove over with my mom and my brother Sid.

My mother has been wanting us to check out the Walt Disney museum in the San Francisco Presidio. On our way we drove through a part of the city that I have always loved…

Fisherman’s Wharf is just awesome. It has history and charm. And really good food. Yes, it is a little touristy now, but somehow it still works.

Mixed in with the tourist traps you can still find working fishing boats, and Ghirardelli Square where you can get good chocolate. And you can get clam chowder in a bowl made of real sourdough bread made from yeast cultures that were in the city back in the gold rush days. As we drove I was just taking pictures out of the window and I saw this strange scene. There was a real lady who looked like she was chatting with a statue of a pirate.

Anywhere else, I might have thought this was a little weird. But not in the Bay Area. Man, I love the Bay Area.

The Disney museum is really nice. It is inside one of the old brick barracks buildings on the no longer active military base called the Presidio. It is a beautiful location and well worth visiting just for the views.

The old military buildings are being repurposed. There are museums and other things to see, and many Bay Area companies are moving in as well.

The Disney museum is larger than I expected, and there is a lot to see. I will not bore you with lots of pictures of the inside, but this display of some of the paints used to color the original movie cells from the early days of the studio just caught my artist’s eye…

And at the very end, there was a very large model of Disneyland not as it ended up, but built on Walt’s original concept drawings.

I hope you enjoyed these pictures of our trip. I might do some more this afternoon, but I haven’t decided which ones to use yet.