Hitchhiker A dead bug is stuck to the frame of an airplane window. (On the inside.) San Francisco, CA.
Smoking the Maratha Pipe A clay pipe at an exhibit at Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA. It is of British origin, from around 1860. The interesting thing is that the pipe chamber looks like a mustachioed man wearing a turban. The resemblance to a Maratha warrior from a decade or so previous is .. suggestive.