One of the Things I Love About the Walk from Work...

...is that my office is downwind from a Ghirardelli chocolate factory. When you step outdoors in the evening, you're greeted with a rich smell of chocolate that's like walking into a kitchen moments after a pan of brownies has been pulled from the oven. Mmm.

The area as a whole is fairly industrial - besides the Ghirardelli factory, the BART tracks pass metal and paper recycling plants, yards full of tires and shipping pallets and, most enjoyably, a dour brown complex studded with smokestacks, whose logo proclaims it to be "Mother's Cookies...The Best Little Cookie Company!" Ah yes, that brings back happy memories of the old family assembly line, and how we'd rush home from school every day to eat the thousands of pounds of preservative-laced cookies that our robot mothers had manufactured for us. Good times, good times.