San Francisco, CA: Beauty Everywhere You Look

Our tour of San Francisco covered a lot of ground. Personally I love these one day tours that use open top buses although they are not everyone’s ‘cup of tea’. You can get on and off all day long at any of the planned stops. It’s a relatively quick and cost effective means of getting your bearings in a new location. After one of these tours we go back and explore the areas that piqued our interest on the tour.

The Golden Gate Bridge never ceases to capture your attention no matter where you are in San Francisco.

San Francisco’s version of Central Park features a Japanese Tea Garden.

  Of course, for all the hippies out there, no visit to San Francisco would be complete without a visit to Haight – Ashbury. That’s a mural of Jimmie Hendrix who owned a house in the Haight…

Fans of the Olsen twins and the TV series “Full House” will recognize the yellow house above and the park across the street, both featured in the opening credits of the show.

Californians insist that everything is ‘bigger & better’ in California. In this case, the California State Capitol dome is 1 foot taller than the US Capitol Dome in Washington, DC. No easy way to measure so I’ll take the guides word for it…

The Stinking Rose Restaurant is famous world-wide, as is their byline: “We season our garlic with food”.

I surprised Mary Lynn and Jenna by driving down the ‘curviest street in the world’ – Lombard Street. It was fun although as the driver you have to really pay attention because the street is both crowded and narrow. You can see everyone gather at the bottom trying to get a shot of all the action.

I took this shot several blocks away and was really pleased to get all of the action plus the three people crossing the street at the top of the hill…

This was the view from the restaurant on Pier 39 where we had lunch. Of course that’s Alcatraz in the background.  If you look closely you can see a few of the hundreds of people who were Kite Surfing on the bay.

Another view from Pier 39. Every where you look, San Francisco is a beautiful.

See Ya!
Dale

 

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