San Fran

On a road trip like this there are bound to be delays, the trip from Yosemite to San Fran, 194 miles, which should be anywhere from 4 to 5 hours took us around 15. From wandering around looking for a laundry facility that was open, (and in an area we were willing to stop) driving around around looking for a place to stay for the night, finally getting our laundry done and getting to the gym to get a shower, we felt like were were running around in a Three Stooges movie. We were starting to feel like we could have driven to Denver, done all we needed to do and driven back and it would have been easier. Never the less, with clean cloths, clean bodies and a new...um "appreciation" for small California towns, were were finally on our way to San Fran.
We arrived too late to really go out and see much, but we were close to AT&T park and the Giants were in town so we thought taking in a game was a good way to start our stay here in the city by the bay. Mark Twain once said "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco" and believe me he's not joking. This place makes Iceland feel like the tropics in the summer. We enjoyed the baseball game but sitting in the breezy section in the 3rd deck had us cheering for three up three down innings, the game ended and we shivered our way back to the car and back to camp.





Having learned our lesson the night before Ginger and I dressed for a Colorado winter and headed into the city to sight-see. Since we were camping right across the street from Candle Stick Park we had one sight out of the way and we were able to leave our car and take the shuttle downtown and see the city on foot. We saw all the sights that a good tourist should see, went up Coit tower, ate sea food at the wharf, walked up and down hills, rode the trolly cars, ate in china town, it was great. The next day we attacked San Fran by truck, we drove down Lombard Street, we went to Golden Gate park, drove over the Golden Gate bridge and experienced all of the finer points of California driving.






































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Location:San Francisco