After leaving Yosemite, we went to the coast, San Francisco. I was supposed to meet Mark there, but he flew to Hawaii to avoid me. We did a lot of the tourist stuff in San Francisco. The Golden Gate Bridge, Chinatown, Lombard Street to name a few. We went to the Point Reyes Lighthouse and to Napa Valley. It is a wonderful area with so much to see and do.
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there was a wind chill factor when we rode across the golden gate bridge
We were on the top of a double decker bus |
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Boudin the first sourdough bread company in San Francisco |
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| looking at San Francisco from the far side of the Golden Gate Bridge |
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| San Francisco from across the bridge |
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| starting our morning on the Larkspur Landing ferry |
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| lunch at Moylan's Brewery was a good meal |
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| we started with the nachos yummmy |
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| the next day we headed for Point Reyes Lighthouse, weird.seeing cows by the beach |
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| the west coast has so many cliffs and boulders |
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| Point Reyes Lighthouse 308 steps below |
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| the wind helps to shape the trees |
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| Drakes Beach near the Lighthouse |
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| the beach is sandwiched in between 2 cliffs |
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| we had lunch at the Station House Café, beautiful garden patio |
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| clouds, fog or smog, who knows |
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wine tasting at the winery Mark recommended
Gundlach Bundschu |
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| relaxing after the wine tasting not knowing that a 6.0 earthquake would hit the area in 4 days |
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| the grapes on the vines |
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| the grape vines growing in the vineyard |
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| looks like it is time to harvest the crop |
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| Guy put his stamp of approval on the wine |
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| leaving the dock in Larkspur |
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| Ripples Ripley posing for his portrait |
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| there are numerous vineyards in Sonoma and Napa Valley |
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| it took awhile to park but we caught the ferry to San Francisco |
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| the ferry dropped us off at Pier 1, we walked past Pier 39 to Fisherman's Wharf |
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the hop on hop off tour bus, we hopped off then had to wait for another bus when
we went to get back on, so after we finally got on, we did not get off any more |
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| There was so much to see, do and eat in SF |
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Lombard St is the crookedest street in the world, it reminds me of Bill Cosby's the
Hills of San Francisco, if you have never heard it YouTube it |
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| the city of San Francisco |
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| August is not the best time to visit of you do not want fog |
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| City Hall, the fifth largest dome in the world, styled after one Paris |
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| they told us we were lucky to see the bridge at all in August. It is the foggy season |
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| on Height and Ashbury St this sight greets you. from the summer of love in 1967 |
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| in the Victorian district of SF, so many gorgeous multi million dollar homes |
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| the Richmond-San Rafael bridge we crossed the bay on, 20 bucks |
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| the hills of San Francisco go... seriously listen to Bill Cosby |
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| So many forms of transportation trolleys, ferries, cars, buses... |
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| one for Guy, one for me, mine is the blue one |
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| Fisherman's Wharf, on Dottie's advice we tried the donuts, soooo goood |
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| the original |
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| this was a fun shoot em up game, our targets were zombies |
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| we left on the last ferry to Larkspur Landing |
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| see how creative people are |
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| where we ate lunch in SF |
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| Chinatown was busy |
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| and so we say goodbye to the City on the Bay |
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