Megan Read and Zack Katz always travel with a blanket on their Sunday bike rides “because you can always find something going on,” as Read explained it. “So we just see where it takes us.”
On Sunday, it took them to San Francisco’s Presidio Tunnel Tops, where they followed the sound of beating drums up from the playground where they were entertaining their daughter, Zuzu, 17 months.
They spread their blankets on the lawn of the East Meadow in front of a dance platform and soon learned that they had stumbled upon the 50th anniversary celebration of World Arts West, a cultural dance festival that began its afternoon program with Los Lupeños de San José, a troupe of women in traditional dresses and men in cuera, a traditional jacket with hanging fringe and cowboy hats that mysteriously did not blow off in the breeze coming through the Golden Gate…