San Fran

Tuesday

Who's idea was it to drink late then fly out early the next day... d'oh it was mine. After finally coming to the realisation that I lost my wallet we headed off to the Airport. The flight was meant to be about 90 mins and as with all other flights we've had so far it was way early.

Stayed at a hostel in the middle of the city. It was pretty close to Union Square which is perfect for getting around. We dropped the bags off and headed straight to pier 33 for our Alcatraz tour. We had tickets set for 12:00 so it was always gonna be close as to whether we'd make it. The tour was packed and it took about 3 hours to get around what we wanted to see. Could have spent a lot longer there but I really don't get into flowers that much and a lot of the tour was about the different species of flowers on the island.. yawn.

We finished up and started on the hop on/off tour that we had booked. 48 hours, a few different loops with stops at all the major attractions. That is definitely the way to do it when you are visiting a city that has so much you want to see.

Let's see we took in The Bay Bridge, Fisherman's Warf & a Trolley ride. We went on the night tour which did a lot of similar places but also took in Alamo Square. This has the 5 houses called the 5 sisters that were on the opening credits to Full House.

Wednesday

Continued the tour plus jumped on a Golden Gate Bridge/Presidio tour. The Presidio is where George Lucas has a lot of his studios plus there is a heap of old army barracks and houses there. We then got off at the bottom of Lombard street and walked to the top of that. It is the street that zig zags at the top because it is so steep to stop any accidents should breaks fail. It was a hell of a climb (I think they said it's the steepest street in the world (dunno about that. Hang about... Google... nope it's the crookedest..) Speed limit on the street is 5 mph.

We walked back down it then up Telegraph Hill to Coit Tower before walking down 440 steps to the Fog City Diner (used in the movie So I married an axe murderer). That was pretty much enough touring for us so we found an internet cafe (there are stuff all of them in the USA). Tomorrow it's off to NYC. It's a 6 hour flight so doubt anything will happen tomorrow but then again you never know when I'm leading Jane astray.