Reading Peter Hartlaub’s beautiful and heart-felt defense of SF (Boston radio hosts branding SF as “a zombie apocalypse”), I was grateful both for Peter Hartlaub and a Boston friend now staying in SF who has not failed the empathy test.  In fact,  at the end of his article, Peter Hartlaub says “Start at the Ferry Building….then take a public ferry (anywhere!)”  That’s exactly what my Boston friend suggested when the ferry we had planned to take to Treasure Island February 3^rd had mechanical problems and couldn’t take us there.   It was a toss up at Gate B:  Tiburon or Sausalito.  The ferry to Sausalito came first, and we were aboard it, both happy to explore a bit of Marin and return to the lovely skyline of SF.