http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , California , San Francisco , North Beach en-us Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:15:29 BST Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:15:29 BST Georgia was in her element because she saw plenty of squirrels chipmunks and deer we didn't see any bears which would have been nice at a distance. After two nights at Yosemite we drove to Monterey it was beautiful next to the see we saw sea lions on all of the rocks around the jetty and a sea otter swimming around fishermans wharf when we were waiting for dinner we ate at Bubba Gumps the http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-327675.html A Busy Day...Another beautiful day in San Francisco Our morning started with a lengthy stroll along the wharf with a haunting view of Alcatraz and the Golden Gate bridge in the distance. After we checked out of the Hostel we perused some local art galleries and even became part of the art scene when an artist sketched us Ok it was more like a bad caricature but fun none the less. Hopping http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-320188.html Today we went to Muir woods one of the last places where the giant redwoods can be seen. They were wonderful and the place was peaceful and the trees majestic.The highest is over 250ft tall. You can see scars where the trees survived a fire over 100 years ago.Then on to Sausalito. A very expensive yachting port where the houses are over 2 million dollars and upwards.We then went on a harbour crui http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-314832.html Great a day when we did not have to get up very early to get on a coach.The hotel does not do proper breakfast so started wlking down to the business district.Found a great diner and had breakfast there.Walked on exploring the city.There are more homeless here than 3 years ago and your heart goes out to them.Finally reached pier 1 by the Pacific ocean and walked towards pier 39.Found the bakery http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-314493.html What a day it has been.An early start 8am from our hotel then on to Sacramento.A brief stop for a tour photo outside the governors house arnie was not there before continuing on to old Sacremento. As it was over 100 years ago. Whatched a bridge rise to let a paddle steamer past.Then it was on to San Francisco. A city tour wherethe fog ust lifted enough for us to finally see the Golden Gate brid http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-314086.html Our Travel PlansBelow is our travel itinerary. We haven't any plans other than the flight into Thailand and the flight out of Vietnam. We intend to spend a couple days in Northern Thailand before traveling through Laos into Northern Vietnam then down the coastline to Ho Chi Minh City. You can view my travel blog for periodic updates.August 16 2008United 0889Depart SFO 1106 AMArrive PEK 225 http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-308372.html Only fourteen days separate me from Southeast Asia. With very little time left to prepare for my five week journey from Northern Thailand to Southern Vietnam I decided I should pick up my travel prescriptions. After entering the Walgreen's on Bay Street I walked to the back where I found the pharmacist. I'm not sure why but I carefully scanned the label on the Malarone bottle and noticed that http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-307631.html I might as well round out this terrible excuse for a travel blog in style by summing up everything that has happened on the holiday bringing me to an impressive grand total of 2 posts. In my defense internet is hard to find in the USA and expensive too 1 per minute in the MGM GrandNew YorkSo on the last 2 days of New York we went to this classy diner place where apparently a lot of celebrit http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-306462.html At 930 am I arrived at the Vietnamese Consulate in San Francisco and submitted my application for a 30day travel visa. The lady behind the counter scanned my application and asked me for a passport photo. I told her I didn't have one and she said OK never mind you can pick up your visa Monday morning 800 am. Give me sixty five dollars please. I began to pull my United Mileage Plus credit http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-304890.html Wakingup in San Francisco you could feel the difference how to describe it. I searched for a single word I found effervescent.. Adjective1. effervescing bubbling.2. vivacious gay lively sparkling. No San Francisco Bay is not filled with soda water. It's more that there's a tingle in the air from the omnipresent mist that rolls in. It mixes with the culture of this place. LA is sterile http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-301667.html So here I am in San Francisco wearing flowers in my hair. Bright Pink and Yellow ones. Ok so the flowers are metaphorical but the one thing that's for sure is that I have lost my heart to this city Without being overly poetic philosophical or waxing too lyrical San Francisco truly exceeded anything I could have expected. Not knowing much about the city before I got here I was vaguely awa http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-296258.html First outing with our little one. Traveling with a baby is not as easy as I'd thought. If I remember to take a million things its possible to forget a zillion However we had the need. The need for travel.In all these years somehow we'd successfully managed to miss going to Fort PointThe amateur photographer in me always wanted to get the angle of Golden Gate from there. A sunny weather in s http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-288721.html Hi allLast thursday night we had dinner with friends we had met on the islands and met some of their friends too. We ended up sharing their room as our hostel was so disgustingThe next two days friday and saturday were spent lazing around the pool in the sun topping up our tanJust before we left for the airport we had dinner with 'the suncream natzi' Jane then shared a taxi along some VERY http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-286238.html Got up this mornin and helped our self 2 the hearty breakfast which the hostel provided. We then made our way 2 pier 33 to catch the boat across to Alcatraz. Now here is the catch its free to actually get into Alcatraz but the only way to get there is by boat which costs 25. I don't know how they actually get away with callin it free. What do they expect us to do. Freakin swim If people are s http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-281605.html Hello again. After our marathon 20 hours travelling we've spent 4 days here at San Francisco. It's supposed to be the city that everyone wants to live in and we can see why. The weather is great. Clear blue skies with a really cool breeze from the bay. It's such a friendly city as well. The main pier area is Fishermans Wharf. It's got loads of nice restaurants and bars. We've seen loads of funny s http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-276437.html Halli Hallo Christiane ist auf groer Reise. Zuerst war ich 45 Tage mit Tanja und Sabine 2 Freundinnen aus New York in San Francisco. Das war total toll Die Stadt ist sehr niedlich mit ganz vielen Holzhusern und einem herrlichen Blick aufs Wasser die Golden Gate Bridge und Alcatraz. ich htte nie gedacht dass die San Francisco Bay so schn ist Wir waren natrlich auch auf Alcatraz und hab http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-264064.html Hello EveryoneBefore I start a couple of corrections and updates to the last entryI mentioned that we were drinking Cristal with every meal. This is a brand of Mexican table water and not the champagne beloved of the hip hop community.On the celebrity spotting front we saw Mark Lawrenson Match of the Day on the flight from Manchester to London wearing a bad suit. From Dallas to San Francisc http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-237893.html well i officially left my heart in san francisco at 4.30 this morning. I had a wonderful wonderful week and I love that city to death.I arrived late Sunday evening and as the shuttle bus drove around in circles I spotted a few places such as the Saks 5th Avenue which I vaguely remembered from our visit there in grade 6... As I showed up at the hotel I heard sirens wailing and avoided quite http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-227854.html Hi AllIn San Francisco at the moment which is great for the short time I have had to explore thus far....just writing a blog as I seem to have some problems with receiving messages on my mobile. When dialling from the UK you have to send the message or call 0037259539153...this may need to be edited every time you send a text if you are replying a pain I know....I will be back on here again ho http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-204826.html En route to San Francisco we tried to sort out some accommodation at a place suggested by some other backpackers we'd chatted to however we were operating on an ad hoc timeline which meant that by the time we were ready for checking into San Fran the hostel was full up already.On the Inter State across we discovered the biggest fast food burgers to conclude what has been a commited and exhaus http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-199694.html Been to see a few places went on the ferry from Tiburon and across past Alcatraz and landed at the Port Building in San Fran and went to Stinton Beach and also likes Mill Valley alot which includes cici's and their gelato which was really really gorgeous hope the Pixs come out okay talk soonKevin http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-198341.html Today started out with a sleep in and a late breakfast at 10am. The plan for today was to check out some of the architecture in San Fran and walk around the Golden Gate Park. The first stop was a tram change at Castro the homosexual capital of USA note the rainbow flags Our second stop was Alamo Square to check out the most photgraphed street in world... apparently. It's known as Postcard Row http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-180644.html Today was spent cruising the bay at San Fran checking out Alcatraz and the Golden Gate bridge. The day started with the watch alarm buzzing at 645 in the morning it's sad I know but we have been sleeping in till 8ish lately We grabbed a quick bite and caught a couple of trams to Pier 33 for our cruise to Alcatraz leaving at 930. Turns out that the trip to the pier was a bit quicker than w http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-179905.html D Day...ie Drama Day. Today was filled with it. Our stay in LA was great but as we waited patiently for our Super Shuttle to collect us from the hotel and take us to the airport the minutes ticked by... and the shuttle didn't show. At 915 I decided to check out what was going on...LUCKY The company didn't even have our booking The next shuttle couldn't collect us until 950 which didn't http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-179897.html Last night was huge..thousands of people down along the water's edge for a massive open air concert and fireworks. the fireworks were amazing and the atmosphere was buzzing. spent the night dancing with Siobhan Ali Ireland and Liz England at an Irish pub was a laugh. Heading to the airport in about an hour so best run http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-177699.html So i arrived here 2 mornings ago.....after only 2hrs sleep and a 4am wake up. Horrible. But i managed to get out and about and explored the city for the day falling in love with it instantly. The weather has been simply perfect shorts and singlets and constant sunshine. This is seriously one of my favourite if not my most favourite city in the world it's just gorgeous. I haven't had access to http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-177409.html San Francisco some first looks http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-166580.html Am Morgen also nahmen wir den Bus vom Venice Beach in die Innenstadt ca. 1 Stunde. Da uns der Weg zur Busstation leider sehr schlecht beschrieben wurde mussten wir eine weitere Stunde mit all unserem Gepaeck war Sau schwer in der Stadt herumirren Staedte in Amerika sind nicht sehr fussgaengerfreundlich nehmen fuer alles das Auto was das ganze noch erschwerte. Jedenfalls haben wir den Bu http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/North-Beach/blog-159519.html