San Francisco
We stayed in San Francisco for six days, which is an age compared to the breakneck pace of the rest of our roadtrip. I think we felt it was time to settle down. We stayed for the first couple of nights in the Green Tortoise hostel downtown. I usually really like Green Tortoise hostels, but this one was just a bit too big and impersonal, and in a rather dodgy area. Actually it was in an area near Little Italy and the City Lights bookstore, which was cool, you just had to pass a lot of gentleman's clubs and sex shops to get to them. So after a couple of days we switched to a hostel-run hotel (hostel rates!) near Union Square, and we got our own room, big windows out onto the street, fire escape to sit out on. Very nice.
I'd never been to San Francisco with a car before, and I have to tell you that parking is a complete bitch. We spent hours trying to look for a parking spot, driving up and down hills so frighteningly steep that I was convinced gravity was going to stop being on our side at any minute, and that we were just going to fall right off the road. Eventually we found a spot about 20 minutes walk from where we were staying and just left the car there for 6 days.
Our time in San Francisco (are you supposed to call it 'The City'? Not quite sure I trust Armistead Maupin on that) was spent doing a lot of wandering about, really. it was great. We went to SFMOMA, which has this sculpture on top of it:
We saw Golden Gate park, Chinatown, met up with Asha and wandered Berkely, went up to Twin Peaks to see the city below, went to the Castro district, stopped by Haight-Ashbury in time for their annual street fair. I got obsessed with the gorgeous colourful Victorian houses; we both got obsessed with all the fantastic rainbow flags everywhere! There were dozens in the Castro, of course, but they were also lining Market Street (that's the main street which bisects the city in the picture above).
Yay rainbows! San Fran was just a lot of fun (I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to call it 'San Fran'). It seems like it'd be quite liveable, despite the tourists. I do not mind the cold summers either. It's not like I don't have the experience for it.
I'd never been to San Francisco with a car before, and I have to tell you that parking is a complete bitch. We spent hours trying to look for a parking spot, driving up and down hills so frighteningly steep that I was convinced gravity was going to stop being on our side at any minute, and that we were just going to fall right off the road. Eventually we found a spot about 20 minutes walk from where we were staying and just left the car there for 6 days.
Our time in San Francisco (are you supposed to call it 'The City'? Not quite sure I trust Armistead Maupin on that) was spent doing a lot of wandering about, really. it was great. We went to SFMOMA, which has this sculpture on top of it:
We saw Golden Gate park, Chinatown, met up with Asha and wandered Berkely, went up to Twin Peaks to see the city below, went to the Castro district, stopped by Haight-Ashbury in time for their annual street fair. I got obsessed with the gorgeous colourful Victorian houses; we both got obsessed with all the fantastic rainbow flags everywhere! There were dozens in the Castro, of course, but they were also lining Market Street (that's the main street which bisects the city in the picture above).
Yay rainbows! San Fran was just a lot of fun (I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to call it 'San Fran'). It seems like it'd be quite liveable, despite the tourists. I do not mind the cold summers either. It's not like I don't have the experience for it.
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