Published: January 18th 2005January 18th 2005
Wow San Francisco is amazing! and we got to see quite a bit of it because when we arrived at 9 o'clock on Friday night a couple of very tired boys, we took about 50 wrong turns on the crazy highway system they've got going on there and it took us 4hours and few laps of San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland to finally find my friends brother who was too drunk to come and find us... Huge welcome to San Fran party that night with Seth and a few of his friends and nieghbours, then we spent the next couple of days recovering at Chantal and Matts converted wharehouse flat with their tattoo artist flatemates and their pet snake and Chinchilla(aka - Killer Chilla). Also got to watch the sunset glow light up the Golden Gate Bridge one afternoon, and we did tour with Yogie bear's Park Ranger to the old Alcatraz prison out in the harbour which was awesome. Time to get on the road again though, I've got untill the 21st to cross the Canadian border and get my work visa stamped in or I lose it so we're in a bit of a hurry. So today we're
Piss-bag
Dan couldn't wait for a toilet as we crossed the 10min long Bay Bridge into San Fran for the second time so resorted to nearly overflowing this 3litre chip bag in the back seat of the Crysler. "wooooah.. it feels like a hot-water bottle!" - quote of the night from a slightly drunk Dan after almost a dozen "timekilling" beers
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I'm russ, I'm from New Zealand and have developed a love for travelling over the last couple of years. It was the best descision of my life for sure, breaking the routine and heading off to explore the globe, and I would highly recommend getting out there and having a close up look and anything that you've read about or heard about that intrests you, because if it looks cool on TV, I can garuntee you that it'll be even cooler when you are there amoungst it. And if you're stuggling for ideas about where to start, I'd highly recommend buying a oneway ticket to South America and the rest will ta... full info
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Fishermans Warf
Very touristy but a beautiful spot filled with beautiful people none the less
Chantal's mean as Wharehouse flat in Oakland
That's Matt and Chantal between me and Dan, their flatmates on the other side of me, and ghost-man is Anya's boyfriend.
Welcome to Alcatraz
after walking around here for a couple of hours with the running commentry headset we decided that none of them pbablably felt very welcome when they stepped of that boat
The Alcatrz Courtyard
This is where the Convicts used to be able to come and breath the fresh air of freedom for a hour a day before getting sent back to their cold little cells
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Date: 25th July 2006
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hi! i'm mary! i'm a french girl.I went to go at san francisco at december 2005 and i'm fall so love of san francisco! i come back at december 2006.!!!!!!!!!!!!! San Francisco i'm loving it!!! kiss every's body's. see you California!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bisous
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french attitud
hi! i'm mary! i'm a french girl.I went to go at san francisco at december 2005 and i'm fall so love of san francisco! i come back at december 2006.!!!!!!!!!!!!! San Francisco i'm loving it!!! kiss every's body's. see you California!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bisous
From Blog: Saaaan fraaaaaannnnciiiscoooooo!!
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right on guys. looks like a wicked trip. keep on given er'.
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