Palindromes are fun.
From small ones ("Anna") to big ones ("a man, a plan, a canal -- Panama"), something that runs the same from front to back can provide minutes of sheer entertainment.
There's this li'l coffee joint called Palindrome, right at 131 Steuart Street, that we pass every day on the way to the YMCA. Don't know why we don't go there more often, except that drinking coffee seconds before working out doesn't do friendly things to our body. Although that's no excuse for not stopping by the gym.
Our trip to the Y is usually a sort of palindrome -- from a nice building where we don't really want to be, but sort of have to go (our place of work) past a nice restaurant (Boulevard), past this weird stretch of sidewalk that always smells like garbage, past another nice restaurant (Shanghai 1930), finishing at another nice building where we don't really want to be, but sort of have to go (again, the recently renovated Embarcadero YMCA). So, pretty much the same front to back.
