San Fancisco in a day

OK, We decided to stay in San Francisco for the full day today and stay and extra night because we got in around 6 last night and thought it wasn't going to be enough time. So in doing that we cut out the Grand Canyon. This was a hard decision but ultimately came to the conclusion that the Grand Canyon probably deserves it's own trip. So this gave us some extra time to fiddle with. We decided that we want to see the Redwoods that are near San Fran. and drive down the Pacific Coast Highway... I think that's what its called. Then I think maybe a drive through of LA then staying in a town inbetween LA and Las Vegas.

San Francisco is beautiful.


The hills are very cool looking, and make for some interesting city walking. I have two huge blisters... one on each foot.


Other than that it has been totally worth it. The bay is beautiful, I touched the Pacific ocean. I was very excited about this. We went to Fisherman's Wharf and the Pier 39 area which has shops and restaurants and a lot of neat things like that. Pier 39 is kind of like Navy Pier in Chicago.



One very cool thing about it was that Sea Lions come there to sunbathe, a lot of Sea Lions.


Then we drove to Golden Gate Park which is more west of the downtown area of San Fran. It was nice, palm trees and lots of interesting looking plants. We found some flowers to put in Lindsey's hair.


Then we walked to Haight/Ashbury from the park which was pretty much right outside the Park. It is basically where a lot of the influensial people from the whole 60's movement lived and hung out and made music and ared and rebelled. Now its basically a bit of a run down area where wannabe hippies panhandle on the sidewalk. It was slighty disappointing. Then we drove back to the Hotel, went to the Pier/Bay area and had dinner and then went to Gihradelli's to have ice cream... it was awesome! :)

Now we are back at the Hotel recovering from our wounds. I noticed I have some substantial sunburn. I'm looking forward to tomorrow, but now we have to plan it.