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Hellooooo out there!
Last time I was just about to leave Las Vegas heading to San Francisco. I once again successfully caught the plane, 4 out of 4 thus far - booyah! However, the X-ray machine at Vegas airport did a Houdini on me and lost my sun glasses. I blatantly put them in as the later told me to put them in the tray before I walked through the machine, however they did not come out the other side, she obviously decided that I had not put them in the tray so that was the last of their journey, was looking to have them for the entire journey, o well. I still have my original chap stick though, that will be quite the success if it remains with me the rest of the trip.
San Francisco Stuff (observation at bottom):
Anyway, I arrived into San Francisco (S.F.), and thanks to Kelly's very thorough instructions I got to her house with no issues, however after retrieving the spare keys, I would spend 25 minutes attempting to get through 3 doors. I eventually made it into her house where I just cruised for the evening as I had no idea where anything was etc.
On the Sunday, we went to a place called ATA where she volunteers to watch the World Cup Final on a big screen thing at the ideal time of 11:30am. Was a good atmosphere, with a roughly equal number supporting either side which is always fun. Well done Spain.
Afterward, we wandered onto the street. Each month in S.F. they have a day where they close down a stretch of road somewhere in the city where everyone cars are not allowed and everyone can just hang out on the street anf stuff. Was really cool and unique, makes a good chance for families to go bike riding in safe environment etc.
We then went and got some lunch and sat in Delourous? Park for a while. The park was huge compared to anything in Wellington, except perhaps the Botans but it was generally flat, a good place to cruise through the afternoon. The rest of the evening was spent attempting to sort my Uni and Study Link stuff out, think it is all sussed now. I tiki-toured the streets and got to know the area. We went to the Cinema and watched 'Get him to the Greek' later on, was a good movie for sure.
Today (technically yesterday), I jumped on the bus car thingy and went to Pier39 and Fishermans Wharf. I can see how tourists go there with all the shops and stuff, but there is nothing really spectacular about it but for some reason if I lived in S.F. I think I would go there often; maybe I was jealous of the Sea Lions sleeping all day. I had planned to go to Alcatraz, turns out you need to book 5 days or so in advance so that was a fail.
I then went through China Town, was some cool shops, but didn't purchase anything, once again, can see the tourist aspect to it, but nothing overly OMG about it. I then took a couple busses to the Golden Gate Bridge (most common place to commit suicide apparently). Was cool to go on it after seeing it on Telly all my life but still only was keen to walk half way across.. It definitely would have been ground breaking stuff back in the day. Almost lost my hat with the wind, but in the nick of time caught it as I sure was not going to dive off the bridge after it. After getting photos etc. Done it was back to base. We had a couple drinks at a bar, Sierra Nivara, was a very nice beer, plenty of fruit flavours in it. Outside there was a couple cops cars that had pulled over a car, and began searching through the car when we left. Probably just them being over dramatic, so unfortunately will not be on COPS anytime soon.
San Francisco Observations:
-Lots of homeless people....there was lots. They all had shopping trolleys full of stuff though, so seems like they sleep pretty well.
-KFCs Double Down Sandwich. Had to get one of these when I came across a KFC. It sounds intimidating with the buns being replaced with Chicken Fillets, but it was actually fairly small and real tasty. Although the cheese on it seemed like it was very, very processed (worse than normal).
-Everyone bikes everywhere. At this point in time, road bikes are in fashion. It was crazy how many people were biking.
-Dogs. Everyone has a dog it seems. Mostly small dogs, but I walked past one MASSIVE dog which stuffed up my comment minutes early of 'I have not seemed a big dog yet, as in a Labrador size dog'. They were all very well behaved with each other. Kelly mentioned that there are more dogs than children in S.F.....insane!
-Public Transport was very good and cheap here. Was a couple bucks to get on a bus, and you could use that for any bus or tram car thing for 5 hours or so. They definitely encourage people to avoid not driving here. When you cross the road, pedestrians generally have the right of way.
-The weather was overcast most of the time I was here, however it was definitely on, off, on, off with the jacket.
I wasn't too sure about S.F. on the first day. But it was just so much different to Vegas that once I had adjusted to that fact, it was a cool and very cultural city. Reminded me a lot of Wellington for sure, can't remember why, but there were reasons.
Tomorrow (technically today) morning I fly to San Diego at 10:40ish am. San Diego will involve Beaches and the Zoo and other stuff no doubt.
Good bye.
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