Today's our last full day in San Fran and the only must-do thing we have left is to ride a cable car. We decide to go to the cinema for a cheap day out then get the cable car home. We head down and eventually find the place on the 5th floor of a mall, but the elevator only goes to the 4th floor! Weird! So we escalator up the last floor and decide to go see "The Town". It's on an XD screen which is pretty much like IMAX. Floor to ceiling screen and insane sound ...

When we get to union sq this morning there's a queue of ladies about 1/2 mile long, at least as far as the eye can see. Beck thinks its the line for our tour bus. I don't reckon so, not unless our tour bus is giving away free pairs of brand new Levis jeans. Turns out its not but the people in the middle of union sq are exchaging old jeans for new levis "60-80 dolla value" the chinese lady from our bus tells us! So we eventually board the tour bus. We get off a...

So todays the big day, the main reason I wanted to come to San Fran was to see Alcatraz and with the sound of Edie Izzard off his DVD ringing in my ears - ALCATRAZ!ALCATRAZ!ALCATRAZ! - I proceed to annoy Becks head all day by whispering this to her and then shouting it at her! It gets annoying even for me. So we hand back the car, luckily bypassing the biggest line I ever seen at a car rental place, and head out on foot to see San Fran. First China town. Its OK,...

Woke up real early in the custom hotel. Good nights sleep after all the traveling yesterday, and what better way to follow it up than with another day of long traveling. We get the airport shuttle back to LAX then the free bus to Alamo (car rental), where this weird fat man gets us all sorted with paper work and a sat nav. He takes the payment from the wrong card and when he realizes he stares wistfully into the yonder and says "I'm sorry, so very, very sorry. I'...