All packed. Luggage is at the hotel and we are off to fill in our last day. We find a cafe for breakfast and find ourselves sitting next to a dad and his son from Canberra and they have been travelling around for 6 weeks. We are going back on the hop on hop off bus today to get us back to the Golden Gate Bridge so we can walk it. It's a beautiful day, the sky is less foggy and visibility of the bridge is the best we have seen. So many people are walking and cyc...

More relaxing pace today. We have a 2 day hop on hop off pass. First bus leaves at 9am and we are on it as it leaves from just around the corner from our hotel. We have covered a lot of the areas on the cable cars or on foot but today we have a commentary so get a bit more information about what we are seeing. Lots of information from a local guide about different movies shot here, famous people who live or have homes here and some history. The flat area of San F...

Early start - up at 5am, picked up at 6 am for our Yosemite day trip. Our group of 36 head out of San Francisco before 7am. The traffic at that time heading into the city is horrendous and is banked up for miles and miles. Thankfully we are going the other way. Its forecast to be a nice day and no rain. It's not as cold this morning that's for sure. We stop at Oakdale about 2 hours down the track to get breakfast before continuing for another 2 hour drive. The dr...

Early start today. Excited and ready to explore Alcatraz. Our tickets are for the 9.30 departure but after breakfast at Johnny Rockets we get to Pier 33 at 8.20 so I asked if we could swap to the earlier ferry and we got on the first one for the day at 8.45am. It's cold today. The wind is like ice and it's going to be colder on the island. We have a self guided tour like most people so after watching a short film about Alcatraz we collect our audio headsets and b...

At the airport by 9.45am, very early for our 2.10pm flight. Just mentioned to the guy at check in that if there was an earlier flight we would be up for it so we got on the 11.40am flight to San Francisco which was a huge bonus as it gave us more time today to explore this fabulous city. The flight with Virgin America was quick and very good. Nice aircraft. At the airport we checked out our options for travel to the hotel and decided to use a shared ride. It cost...