San Francisco | Bay Bridge

Whenever I stayed in San Francisco, this would be my view from the home of my dear friend, Linda Donnelly-Reid. Her home was ideally located near SOMA, the Financial District, BART, The Ferry Building and the most incredible light show by light artist Leo Villareal.

Starting at dusk, I would spend hours watching The Bay Lights, a site-specific monumental light sculpture and generative art installation on the Bay Bridge. The installation includes 25,000 individual white LEDs along 1.8 miles (2.9 km) of the cables on the north side of the suspension span of the bridge between Yerba Buena Island and San Francisco.

I never got tired of this view day or night. Watching sailboats and shipping tankers cruise by during the day and Villareal’s light show at night was urban living at its finest.