Hotel Sausalito
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The Beat Goes On
... and Sausalito, and decided that driving was the best option all round. We left our hotel and headed toward the Golden Gate Bridge, which we had to cross in order to reach our first destination of Muir Woods. This area holds some of the best examples of old-growth redwood trees that one could find anywhere. This land was privately purchased by William Kent and his wife in 1905, then donated to the government in 1908, with the proviso that the land would be named ...
Into the Woods
... ride... at least not for a while). Luckily the park office loaned us a couple of strollers as the kids wouldn't have made it very far walking the track, and my biceps are already straining from a fair bit of carrying as we've made our way around so far. The forest became darker and darker as we walked further along the path beside Redwood Creek, and the trees were a magnificent height. It was impossible to capture a photo of the glory of these majestic trees... none of ...
Across the Golden Gate
... by 4pm, and the rest of the time the locals live peacefully and quietly and all greet each other by name. The lovely lady asked the kids where we are from, to which Phoebe answered, "Engadine". "Oh, England!" said the lady. We were lucky that Phoebe hadn't rattled off our whole address, as that is usually the answer when they're asked where they live. When I said we were actually from Australia, we had the poor old dear completely befuddled. "But she said she was ...
Sausalito
... Bridge, and has quite a breathtaking view of the city, as well as arty little shops and cafes and restaurants...i could have happily spent all day there eating the bag of cherries i bought from a mean man on the side of the road unfortunately, what i did spend all day on was a torturous tour of Monterey, Carmel and the famed 17 Mile Drive...my gawd, it has been a long time since i have been so consistently bored for that many hours...for years ...
San Franny
... whistle stop tour of SF was the house used in Mrs Doubtfire which Mike and Hannah were very excited by but Kirsty, well not so much. Kirsty was not prepared to take into consideration that the film was about 20 years ago and so the house may not look EXACTLY how it does in the film. Before the next stop we had some informative trivia from Mike- “Did you know that the city of San Francisco is built around 42 hills?” No we didn’t Mike. Kirsty ...