San Francisco

Well it is now over a week since the victory and we are only just getting around to updating the blog. But before that we have to back track to San Francisco.

The Greyhound bus ride was delightful... with all of America's most outstanding citizens joining us on our 24hr journey. The bus is the poor mans means of travel. We enjoiyed hearing ex cons bragging to young girls about their time in the big house.

However, the trip was worth it as we had a great time in San Francisco. We hired bikes at the waterfront and rode to and then across the Golden Gate Bridge with the fog closing in making it quite eerie. That night we did a walking tour which wasn't what we were expecting but we found it really interesting. Learnt about the earthquakes, fires and destruction the city has faced and how they have set up systems for future disasters.

Day 2 was spent at Alcatraz, exploring the prison and grounds. We heard some great stroies about some of the more famous inmates like Al Capone and the Birdman of Alcatraz who actually never had birds there. Interesting fact: Al Capone was responsible for having expiry dates put on milk as he owned a dairy and didn't want kids drinking sour milk. Very intersting place.

That afternoon we walked up and down the hilly streets to find the windiest street in the world and some tower we can't remember the name of that had 360 degree views of the city and bay.