Blogs from Alcatraz, San Francisco, California, United States, North America

Back in March, I learned that I needed to write a bucket list. "50 things that I wanted to do before I die", and one of them had to happen by March 17th. It was all part of an exercise for a class I was taking at my church titled, "Emerge: Claim Your Creativity" Reaching the given deadlne presented a challenge since most of my bucket list consisted of goals such as, "Go to Denmark" and/or "Go to France". I was pretty much just naming countries. How was I going to get to Europe and back by the 17th of March? So I put in a call for help to one of the teachers. She, herself, was going to "ride a mechanical bull", before the 17th, so that put it all in perspective. I realized I ... read more

Up early to visit Alcatraz, I love San Fransico its such a lovely city! We catch the bus one block away and make our way to the ferry terminal,Steve did not have the correct money and the driver does not give change and before we know it,we've missed our stop.We have a bit of walk to the ferry,but it's an interesting walk through the city. We travel by ferry across the bay and arrive at Alcatraz, lots of walking to be done, it was well worth a look, although we were a little dissapointed as a lot of the areas where blocked off so we were unable to see everything, after about 1 ½ we head back to the fairy and back to San Fransico, we walk again through the Marina and back towards our Motel ... read more

San Francisco (Californie) (Nous demeurons au même endroit pour visiter la ville) ============ 101 km (Cumulatif=8210) ============ Température: Frisquet avec un ciel souvent nuageux ============ Résumé : ============ - Recherche d’un concessionnaire Honda : -------- o Nous en avons localisé 1 et prenons une réservation pour demain matin ============ - Visite de San Francisco : -------- o Déception car la visite de Alcatraz est impossible. Il aurait fallu réserver environ 1 semaine à l’avance; -------- o Croisière en bateau qui nous a montré une vue rapprochée du Golden Gate et de Alcatraz; -------- o Quai 39 : Intéressant avec tous les commerces; -------- o À notre retour aux motos, une petite surprise nous attend : Contravention de 55,00$ pour un parcomètre expiré. Elle a pris la direction de la filière 13… -------- o Lombard Street : ... read more

Left Redwood Valley around 8 am and headed out to Santa Rosa to meet up with a friend that I went to High School with. He suggested that if we had any time, we see a town called Healdsburg along the way and we did have the time, so we stopped. What a very quaint town... we parked the car along what looked like a main street and got out and started walking. Small galleries, shops and loads of coffee shops in the area... we knew we'd stop for some coffee and chai, but wanted to walk around a bit. We found a men's clothing shop and we picked up a hat for Ivan. Being British and well, PALE... he was already needing the extra protection... this hat was the best thing... ended up being a ... read more