Ramada Limited San Francisco Airport West/San Bruno

... to get off!<br>After returning to hotel, Eileen decided she would like to visit Westfield Shopping Mall that we found last evening, leaving me to surf net on computer. I told her she could buy herself anything she liked. She has just returned from shopping after one and half hours and what has she bought? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!<br>Well that just leaves us tonight before our trip to Alcatraz tomoroow.<br><br>Watch this space!!<br><br>

... then gone. I soon discovered that the transportation problems in the afternoon where just the beginning and with all the people crowding the stations now there was little chance for me to shove my way through. So I walked, and walked, and felt pretty miserable, as the sensation of my feet going to fall off grow, and cold. Finally I got a bus (after walking about 2 miles I think) and got safely to the hostel, and just slept.

... number of homeless or perceived homeless youth hanging about. Perhaps they were trying to regain the atmosphere of 1968 Haight Ashbury by updating it with a mix of weed, hair gel, guitars and goth.<br><br>Further down, Haight comes to an end at Golden Gate park. This park is huge and I needed to cut through it to get to 25th Ave where I would begin the long slow road downhill towards Baker Beach. Golden Gate park offers a lot to the people of San ...

... down on Broadway &amp; Steinar. We walked back down the street and headed east, taking us straight through the area known as the Tenderloin. It is one of the poor areas of the city with homeless people, drug dealers, pimps, ethnic minorities, all sorts. An interesting, colourful and urine-soaked place to walk during the day - not to be attempted at night! We got back to Union Square about 1.30 and waited for the next ...

... parts of the stomach ** "According to your brain line in your hand...something your brain chose this...choose that...choose this...choose that..." "According to your life line in your hand, you will have a long life. You will also switch many jobs while your young. Yessss...many jobs." "I can also tell that sometimes your energy levels are sometimes high...and other times no energy." "You have gas. Sometimes big ...

... the name given to the color of the Golden Gate Bridge? To learn more, listen to the Municipal Pier Tour Fourth Stop: Aquatic Park Did you know... The Aquatic park is one of the safest places to swim? Trivia Question: Who was one of the most memorable people to drowned here? To learn more, listen to the Aquatic Park Tour

... about doing that but they will never do it again obviously :) We caught a bus and then another bus back to our hotel and ate and relaxed again in our hotel after a long day and evening out. But it was a good day. The next morning we had tickets to Alcatraz, so we caught the cable car at 8.30am and were at pier 33 by 9.30, cos we had to walk from where the cable cars stopped but it wasn't a big one so it wasn't too bad. There were heaps of people ...

... sort of military prisoners scratched their numbers on the walls. There were also gun slits in the walls. The ranger told us a lot of interesting info about this area &amp; then she turned off her flashlight for a full 30 seconds. It was total darkness. Imagine...this is how dark it would've probably been for whoever had to stay down there &amp; scratch numbers on the wall! This secret tour ended up being the highlight ...

Vanmorgen zijn we om 10 uur aangekomen op de luchthaven van San Francisco. Na de benodigde veiligheidsvoorschriften opgevolgd te hebben (vingerafdruk, foto etc) zijn we met de shuttle bus naar ons Hotel gebracht. *het hotel waar de hitchkock-film "invertigo" is opgenomen; geen idee of dat onze kamer was, dat moet ik echt even googelen vanavond ;-) Na een heerlijke douche is ons laatste onderdeel van de reis begonnen. Lekker dat we 15 ...

... Claire and I had a sweep stake as is to whether or not we could get to sleep again before he turned up and went back to sleep in luxury and of course, much to my delight Grant arrived in one piece and hadn't been soaked into the Chicago night. Another teary good-bye to Claire at Union Station in Chicago and I was pretty much over saying good-bye to my friends (well, Claire seemed more upbeat than me but I was a bit choked). I was happy to be with Grant and about to ...