San Francisco!

We decided to go to San Francisco on Wednesday, the last day I was in California.  On the way there, we saw a big woody hill and all I wanted to do was go there.  So we went to check Albany Hill out!

It was a really cool hill because it was mostly deserted, especially at the top.  Although through the trees, you could see the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco, there weren’t any lookouts or anything.

There was a rope swing though!  That was just about the only thing that was on the hill.  And bugs.  Lots and lots of bugs. 

After Albany Hill, we headed over to San Francisco.  This is us at Lombard Street.  I didn’t even know that street existed!  Cody had me look at a map to find some other street and I pointed to that one because instead of a strait line, it was a zig zag. I showed it to him thinking he would think it was super weird and he just looked at me and said “yeah, that’s Lombard Street.”  Oops.  :)

Then we went over to the Golden Gate Bridge.  If you ever go there, don’t cross the bridge in a car!  We crossed and then walked halfway out across the bridge and then tried getting back and it was a toll road!  It cost $6 to get back and we had no cash and it was cash only so they were going to have us drive through and take a picture of the license plate on the car and send a bill in the mail for $30!  I say “was going to” because Cody didn’t have any plates on the car yet (he just bought it) and so we didn’t get charged.

From the other side.

That’s Alcatraz in the background, so we did our best thug faces.

Cody is not a hunter-gatherer.  He could survive for months without any food or communication in the wilderness, but he’s not so good at the finding directions thing.  So we got serrriously lost trying to find the wharf.  Yes, it’s an island, and a fairly well known one, but we still got lost!  We ended up in some foresty residential area with homes (I just looked this up) around $40,000,000.  Wow. 

But when we finally found the ocean, we ended up on some beach, which we later learned was China Beach.  It was pretty much deserted, but it was a really beautiful beach with a great view of the bridge!

When we finally found the wharf, I had my first bowl of clam chowder that I can remember, and it actually wasn’t that bad!  And Cody found some people from France and got to talk to them, so that was really interesting to hear him speaking French. 

Due to our finding free two hour parking, we ended up only spending about $15 the whole day (two clam chowder bowls and parking at the beginning of the day).

Who knew I’d be a fan of San Francisco!?