The air was cool and breezy in San Fran, a city we've never been to! After sorting out our hotels and tomorrow's ticket, Justin and I went to town for the night looking for some amazing North Beach clam chowder! We took the hotel shuttle to the airport and took the BART (subway thing) to downtown! The way there was misty due to temperature difference between the ocean and land. The houses were all really close together and it reminded me of Full House! XD Once we stepped out the BART the air was crisp and cold to the bone!!!! But [View Full Entry]

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Alright, here are some pics from the plane ride and our first drive in our convertible through San Fran and ino Nappa Valley. [View Full Entry]

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I'm currently in san francisco and absolutely loving it here. A short stop has turned into a really long stay as I can't bring myself to leave. I was last in Santa Barbara and had a good couple of days there. It was a small quiet town and I spent the days on the beach and the evenings at the student nights with the girls from my hostel and 3 dollar cocktails. Then I got the bus up to Santa Cruz where I had some fun at their boardwalk funfair. I arrived at San Francisco last week and it's been such [View Full Entry]

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SFO Airport (May 21, 2009) We made it through SFO to the new international terminal for a quick bite. We pulled together all our "status" on American Airlines and tried to get into the British Airways lounge while on a Cathay Pacific flight....and we had to bargain with a Chinese lady who spoke broken English. My Admiral's club card didn't look like the picture on the card of 'acceptable' entry cards. So she showed us the brochure and we tried again with my Platinum card - it worked, but only with one guest. The guys are all sumo wrestling in the [View Full Entry]

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SFO (May 21, 2009) - Heading to the gate. According to reliable sources, Cathay Pacific just rated best customer service (international). We'll find out and report back. Next entry from HKG. [View Full Entry]

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Orange juice and breakfast bars again. Yuck. But quick and easy. Checkout isn't until 12 so we head up to Lombard Steet - the famous bit - and arrive around 10am. Not too many people this time of morning. We walk down it, then up again, and by the time we reach the top after taking a lot of pictures and getting towards 11am, it's starting to get crowded. Back to the motel - checkout and head back to the Wharf to find another Alcatraz book that Karina decided she should have bought yesterday. We finally found it, then had In'n'Out [View Full Entry]

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No breakfast here so it was orange juice and cereal bars again. Then we headed out to Pier 33 for the Alcatraz tour. Fisherman's Wharf was supposedly 20 mins walk from our motel on Lombard Street, which may technically be correct, but Pier 33 is about 45 mins. Fortunately we left in plenty of time. A classic SF morning - fog. Today we were dressed more appropriately, and despite the brisk walk it wasn't long before I donned my 1st layer of long sleeves. We arrived at the pier and collected our tickets - pre-booked from home a few months ago [View Full Entry]

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Same day, different continent.... 13th May 2009 Now, we realise that on our previous blog we had an entry for the 13th May, but as 'today' ended a mere 43 hours after it started, we felt it deserved another entry! Yes, like Marty McFly, today we went back in time; from being 11 hours ahead of the UK in NZ, we are now 8 hours BEHIND the UK. So, we landed at San Francisco airport - after another very bumpy flight - just after midday. With our suddenly very heavy bags, we made our way onto the BART train and headed [View Full Entry]

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(March 26 through March 29) After winter quarter was over, I decided to drive down to San Francisco from Portland to relax and sightsee before leaving for Colombia. The ten-hour drive is spectacular. The mountain ranges are beautiful and the scenes are breathtaking. Southern Oregon and Northern California are beautiful. I arrived into San Francisco late Thursday night. Driving into San Francisco is amazing. The nightscapes of downtown lit up are spectacular. I arrived into the Excelsior neighborhood of San Francisco where my friend Daisy lives. Daisy and I worked together in Mexico fi [View Full Entry]

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Before breakfast we decided it was prudent to do a last laundry load before home, and with a late checkout (12pm) it was ideal. Then down to breakfast - waffles no less! - and packed up the car ready to head to SF. We arrived at our motel on Lombard St early morning. Luckily our room was ready, so we could dump our stuff and head out for lunch. A nice couple gave us their two "all day transport passes" as we checked in - funnily enough it was a girl that Karina had tried to photograph on the way down [View Full Entry]

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