Left Big Sur after taking photos of our frozen car, and enjoying the crisp air as the stream trickled past just off our verandah. The driving was speactacular, the cliffs high and the road windy. Lots of photo opportunities, but I haven't had a chance to grab them - the pic here is off the internet, but ours will look very similar. Highlights for the day: Highway One. A magic drive. Morro Bay Bakery: Awesome food, and a delicious 'Death By Chocolate' shake. Gr...

I know, another running intro - but that's the way our days start. I took a drive to the shoreline near the foot of the Golden Gate then ran up the hill through the trail in the bush to get to the bridge. It's a fantastic run across the bridge - great views, sunrise appearing over San Francisco and fog out shrouding Alcatraz. After hitting the other side I stumbled across the path under the bridge, so tackled the climb to the upper lookout. It's a serious climb i...

OK, Alcatraz has one shop, but the girls don't look good in stripes! I started my day with a nice hilly run through new parts of San Fran, following some different cable car routes. Good hill work! Once the girls were ready we hit the streets - grabbed a cable car (Literally - we were hanging out the side, which was great fun) and hopped off near Chinatown. It was like we had stepped into another world - noisy, squishy, frantic - but fun all the same. Lots of f...

Just some rambling comments : - they are shopping again....... We came here with some preconceptions - many of which have been blown away. These are just some of the notable ones- but I guess since our exposure to the US is mostly California it may be a bit skewed.... People: Friendly, helpful and pleasant! None of that overconfident and insular American that is often portrayed. They think we are English and are interested at first because of that then when we ...

My day started with an awesome run down along the docks up to Fishermans Wharf then up through cable car territory (i.e. Steep!). Went through the famous Lombard switchback street then back home to wake up the crew.We wandered into Union Square but found the shopping to be a tad pricey. After wandering around a bit we joined the massive queue for the cable car. We decided waiting for food at the wharf was likely to see us much skinnier, so we decided to gobble Bu...