Up n about around 7.30am, saw us packing and ready to go as planned. We dropped Ethel at the carpark where we had found her and left the keys under a rock in the gravel as requested... She had served us well and we're off to collect our Mustang.. at least we thought we were... Phone calls on Saturday, Monday and this morning had failed to secure a commitment from the nice people at Hertz that we would indeed have a Mustang. Although very friendly, even suggesting...

Setting the alarm for 6.00am, Brad had set his for 5.45, but it didn't go off (surprise), we were off to the ferry by 6.45am. Our intention was to go to SF on the 7.10am ferry from Sausalito, book our place on the standby list for the 5.00pm tour, have some breakfast and then come back. Realising our camera battery was flat as we walked out the door wasn't too important. Sure enough, when we approached the counter on the dock, we were met with a "No Sir, the stan...

Planning for a reasonably early start on Sunday saw us come undone from the start... Still snoozing at 10.00am made for a very late start to our day. Finally engaging gear in Ethel about 11.30 and using our sparkling new GPS to find our way through SF, we headed off. Hertz wanted to charge us $18.00 / day for one of their "never lost" units. We found out the fun way in Italy that "never lost" is not a very accurate description for the system. Brad doing what he ...

Up and about around 8.30 this morning and feeling pretty good. While our cottage is great in many ways, the distance and cost of transport are somewhat limiting. I'm still assessing expenses, but this trip is shaping up to be a lot more expensive than Europe. The taxi to the ferry was $25.00, 2 x ferry ticket $32.00. return, taxi home $18.00... and that's just to get to the city and back... Deciding we needed to get our own wheels, we contacted a local wheeler an...

Landing about 12.00pm, we had managed to time it perfectly for the bus ride out to Sausalito. A 5 minute taxi ride and we were home. We are using Air BnB again for this trip, so I've booked us into a cottage in the Bay Area of San Francisco. From the deck area of the cottage, we have a view over the bay. As the afternoon cooled, we watched the fog engulf the city, leaving only the tips of the sky scrapers visible. Rolling off the hills to our right and over the b...