It is now exactly two months since shelter in place was ordered in counties around the Bay Area. Our quarantine routine runs more or less like clockwork. Monday to Fridays: We’re up and at it around 8:30 in the morning. Between 5:00 and 5:30 in the afternoon, we call it a day. Martin will bike up through the hills about three or four times a week. I will usually join him usually twice a week. And so the days pass seamlessly and fast. All of a sudden it’s Friday and the week’s end again.
As I am in Cannes-fever mode, I have been rummaging the archives and naturally Clint Eastwood figures into the pantheon of stars. Although it is not a Cannes film, we watched Escape from Alcatraz tonight. Clint Eastwood stars as Frank Morris in a film adaptation of a real prison escape from Alcatraz Island, which can be seen in the horizon from our cross street of the same name.
I have never visited Alcatraz Island even though I am a Bay Area native. Nowadays I see it every time I reach the top of the hills on our bike rides. The panorama of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge is quite stunning. I like the view of Alcatraz Island from this side and prefer to keep the prison aspects on the big screen and great escapes to the movies.
Here’s to a lovely weekend escape in any way you can, whether through the magic of movies or on an outing in places like Switzerland where public life has started opening up again this past week.
Let’s go to Alcatraz one day! I’ve also never been.