Day 19: Time to hit the Road! With the Giants winning Game 1 of the World Series overnight, San Francisco might have been smiling but the weather was miserable when we left this morning. Rain and fog greeted us as we left our apartment and walked up a block to the Hertz office within the Westin St Francis Hotel to collect our rental car. I google-mapped various ways of getting out of the city, but in the end I went for the most direct (and simplest) path - we ...

Day 18: Chinese Medicine. We haven't really been hitting the sightseeing as hard these past couple of days as Josh has taken in a bit too much of the bay breezes here. The last couple of nights he's had a bark worse than those sea lions on Pier 39, so this morning we bit the bullet and made an appointment at a nearby doctors. A diagnosed sinus infection, bag of antibiotics, and $300 later he was good to go! We fitted in a quick visit to Chinatown where we gra...

Day 17: More Marina! Today, after a little more retail therapy, we jumped on a cable car and headed back down to the Marina District. This time though we headed a little further round, firstly checking out some old ships at the end of Hyde St Pier. We then went up to Ghiradelli Square, famous for its chocolates (which of course we had to sample and buy). Then a short street car ride took us around to the majestic Palace of Fine Arts. From there we went next ...

Day 16: Doona Day! Sorry folks, not too much to report from today. The rain clouds rolled into San Fran and with Josh and I both a little under the weather, we spent most the day on the couch of our apartment. Thankfully one of the 86 channels on the tv was re-running the Star Wars series, so my recently trained Jedi apprentice was kept entertained! Nic though got out to do her food tour of China Town. By all reports, her and the other 6 people in the party re...

Day 15: SF Bay. We caught a cable car down to the marina district and strolled around Fisherman's Wharf. Given how quickly the weather can change here, we figured while it was sunny we'd jump on a boat and do a tour of the bay. It took us out under the Golden Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz. We then did some more sightseeing around the piers before having a late lunch at 'Bubba Gump's Shrimp Resturant' - Bubba was right, there are alot if ways you can serve s...