Cova Hotel San Francisco

... down to $30 to leave the car there for 4 days.

Once we had sorted ourselves out, we decided to head out to Golden Gate Park (a bit like a SF version of Central Park), for a bit of relaxation in the warm (80 degrees !) California sunshine. I had read about a Japanese Tea Garden in the park that sounded like an oasis in the city. We took the Muni metro, which switches between travelling underground and at street level. We travelled along the SF streets and hills ...

... our way up the hill we found our way to the main building, which houses the cell blocks, dining hall, offices etc. The National Park Service were putting on a talk about the Bird Man of Alcatraz and we decided to listen to that before we started the audio tour around the building. It was quite interesting, apparently Robert Stroud the 'Bird Man' was a real nasty peice of work (unsurprising really for a double murderer), nothing at ...

As we were returning the RV we emptied it out of all the items we had purchased along the way.  We left these with the KOA site for other renters and for the Mexican farm handlers next door. There was quite a collection of stuff – barbies, cooler boxes, chopping boards and some children's clothes. 

We hit San Fran and found Cruise America.  It was quite a sad time (for about 15 ...

... a crowd. i was terrified but feeling grateful that we were doing this together.

they've given my blog a generic title, "ironswan's great adventure." i can't seem to come up with anything better..."my life in korea" or "my life as a military wife" seem to sum it up at this point but those all sound pretty lame too. suggestions welcome.

... c’était pas trop chaud en été mais là c'est vraiment la purée de pois pratiquement tous les jours sur la mer. bon encore heureux ya quelques spots sympas et je crois que je me ferai plaisir pour maintenir le rythme mais de toute facon comme vous le savez je suis pas vraiment venue pour surfer mais surtout pour sortir un peu de mon trou de rat.

alors qu’est ce que je pourrai vous raconter? peut etre que j’ai pas ...

... all over the city via the subway system and double-decker busses. Public transportation is so well done here and everyone uses it. At home it seems that we all feel that public transportation is for the use of everyone else. We're afraid that due to the lack of internet access while we were in Hue, Vietnam we neglected telling you about another amazing part of our trip. So we'll give you the "Readers' Digest" version: Although we had a lot of rain ...

... need to guard against exchange rate fluctuations on exchange risk, especially to go abroad for the first time the public to pay attention, because on exchange of learning more. 　　 appropriate choice of time on exchange 　　 most of the banks in Chengdu Gouhui have launched a private business, but a kind Waihuipaijia day, because of foreign exchange fluctuations in the exchange rate is at any time, targeting ...

... and I lost over $30 dollars to them it is a *****!!! Now that I was cashed up and ready to go I found out that some of the best things in San Francisco are free. My first stop was to be Grace Cathedral, only 5 blocks, now it might not be a very touristy thing here, and the only reason I went in was because it looked very impressive from the outside, surrounded by all these towers and the cable cars everywhere there it was. I got a little treat inside, first where they ...

... and caught a cable car to the waterfront then the ferry to Alcatraz for the tour. The third level of the ferry produced the best views of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges and the "Rock", the small island on which they built Alcatraz. Our tour started with some history and tales of escape attempts, before we climbed the hill to the prison grounds. We were each given headsets through which a commentary from an ex-warden and several prisoners describing the different areas of the ...

... were the amount of people involved in some form of exercise. Actually, unlike Los Angeles where we saw many people way overweight, this is different - people generally speaking look really fit. We have guessed that one of the reasons might be is because of all the steep hills in San Fran that you HAVE to be fit just to get around! So OK, Fisherman's Wharf was fun and we managed to get our bearings. One of the most interesting things we saw down at the wharf was Pier 39 ...