Blogs from Alcatraz, San Francisco, California, United States, North America - page 4

Yippee - Shopping Day ! Off to spend Hubbies money, need some jeans, top and/or a jacket, as we are off to Alcatraz tonight & everyone says it is freezing going across the bay & walking around the island, so going prepared! Ok have now decided as much as I love Bloomingdales, Macys, Nordstroms & many, many other lovely shops I need to win the lottery if I can ever afford to buy anything in any of them :-( Did get some new Levi 'skinny' fit jeans, that I have to peel on & off, but are lovely and comfy, which at my age is very important! And a new wool jacket & a scarf, right ready for anything this strange San Francisco weather can throw at me; but before we go had to have a ... read more

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

So Emily arrived last night, everyone was ripping into me because I had no idea when she was getting here, nor her flight number or from where! So really was useless, her not me But hey she got here ok and introduced her to all my friends out here (6 of them) haha. But jet lag stop the night early and went to bed to make sure we were up for a brutal 10 am checkout, and a nice little trip to loris diner! So much food for breakfast so wonder the Americans are fat they have no concept for portion control! So afte that said goodbye to Sarah and dan till Vegas and all the others. Lionel ( a guy from chile who looks like messi) came with us to get a ride to muir ... read more

Okay so better late than never, right? We are home, well in the city we call home, calling on favors to be returned and currently sleeping on the floor at Erik's (brother's) home. Here is what happened after Turkey and up until this point.... First, I want to say a huge thank you to the lovely folks (Erika,David, Giulio) whom we met while traveling and were so kind to extend their above and beyond hospitality to our travel weary selves... you guys are amazing. After Turkey we flew to Athens. Athens was a little surprise, a little down and out these days, lots of graffiti and lots of folks on the streets, not the Athens I remember, but the gyro pita was still delicious and the historic sites still in tact. Upon arrival we ate some ... read more

Today we had booked our trip to the rock! We were up fairly early at around 8:30am, as we knew that we had to be down by Pier 33 (where the ferries to Alcatraz leave) by around 10:30am. We got ready and set out down to Market Street towards 7-Eleven, so that we could pick up a couple of croissants for breakfast. As it was a bit earlier today, luckily there were two left, so we snapped them up and ate them whilst waiting for the 'F' streetcar to take us down to the wharf. We were waiting for around 10 minutes or so before one arrived, and we squeezed on (it was fairly busy on there as there must not have been one for a while!) and then got off by Pier 33. We could ... read more