City Lights Booksellers San Francisco

Today we wandered what felt like all 43 hills of San Francisco. The aim of the day was to walk to the too of Telegraph Hill and the Coit Tower. On our amble we had coffee at the oldest serving Coffee House on the coast Cafe Trieste and stopped in at City Lights Book store - the oldest operating paper book store in San Francisco. We walked bam down …

Today started with a big breakfast at IHOP, mine was only $7 for a spinach & cheese scramble (kinda a mix between an omelette and scrambled eggs), huge hash brown and two pancakes! Then we went to the wax museum, some of the wax sculptures were really well done, like Jack Nicholson, J.Lo & Keanu Reeves, whereas some were really bad and made …

I left my heart in San Francisco
High on a hill, it calls to me
To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars
The morning fog may chill the air, I don't care

Except that I did care. It was bloody freezing and I was in shorts. I cared especially since we'd been on a Greyhound all night with barely any sleep. Tony …

I was so excited to go to San Francisco. The flight from LA only took 55 minutes, and I was able to get an earlier flight there in the morning. From the airport I got the local metro train (BART) to Powell St which was only a couple of minutes away from my hostel.

Once I'd left the BART station and got onto street level I was surrounded …

... !!   After that we wandered down into the North Beach area where I saw Jack Kerouac Alley and went into City Lights Booksellers. It was an awesome bookstore, there were sections for everything imaginable and the shelves went from the floor to the ...