We woke up in time to take advantage of the fantastic free breakfast at the Green Tortoise (bagels, coffee and juice) before catching up with Chris and Dawn on Skype - the first time we've managed to use it in five weeks of travelling! At around lunchtime, we left the hostel and headed for Fisherman's Wharf and a free museum we'd read about called the Musee Mecanique. The place was filled with old penny arcade games dating back to the 50s and they'd all been kep...

Jeffery left early for work this morning and let us stay in his apartment on our own until we were ready to go, because we didn't look like we were going to 'rob him blind'! We eventually headed back into the city and checked in at the Green Tortoise hostel. It was much bigger than Pacific Tradewinds, the other hostel we'd stayed in, and we liked it straight away - lots of computers with free internet, helpful staff, a large dining room, lots of showers and toil...

Today was our last day and night with Jeffrey. After taking us to the Golden Gate bridge to take some photos, he dropped us off in Japantown quite early. We walked around the Japanese shopping mall for a while, calling into another book shop and a couple of gift shops after a Burger King breakfast with the waifs and strays of San Francisco! We saw a guy counting out pennies to buy a burger only to find he was short, annyoing the cashier. While we were eating anot...

Today we planned to explore some more of the city so Jeffery kindly drew a route on our map and told us what to look out for on the way. The route he gave us had minimal hills which sounded good to us! Before we got the train into the City Jeffery took us to his favourite breakfast place called 'Trouble Coffee' where we had a surfers breakfast of a whole coconut, coffee and a massive slice of cinnamon toast - perfect way to start the day! First stop on our walk...

With slightly fuzzy heads, we packed up our stuff (such a fun job trying to fit everything back into our rucksacks!), showered and checked out of the hostel. Our next stop was at the beach staying with a guy we'd contacted on globalfreeloaders.com. It's a bit like couch surfing but a different site. Basically you look at people's profiles, see what they have to offer for free (couch, spare room etc) and then if they like what you say they email you back and you a...