http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , California , San Francisco , Pacifica en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 07:29:54 +0000 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:29:54 +0000 Aujourd39hui je suis allee sur le pont Golden Gate. Je l39ai meme marche Ce n39est pas si long 2km soit 32 minutes de marche lente en arretant souvant pour prendre des photos Desolee je ne peux pas mettre de photos je les mettrai de la maison...Je n39ai toujours pas vu ce fameux 39fog39. Et bien sur j39ai trouve le moyen de manquer mon lift de retour donc j39ai re http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-784144.html Preparing meals can easily be hard and time consuming yet along with some innovation preparation and some fundamental understanding of nourishment it is simple to develop a week39s well worth of meals that everybody in the family members will enjoy.The trick to producing healthy and balanced delectable dishes for the household is preparing preparing and intending. Preparation the week39s http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-779122.html Another amazing day in San Francisco. We woke this morning to the sound of rain. The infamous San Francisco fog had rolled in and bought misty showers with it.After a late night last night and our first real hiccup with our travel plans sleep was short. When we got back from our late night last night I got today39s program out and read that you needed to book a ferry and bus transfer once you g http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-750970.html We have just arrived home at 1030pm after an extended day of sightseeing in the San Francisco and Sausalito region.After breakfast at the guest house and meeting our other residents Gordon and Claudia we caught the munis to Fishermans Wharf at San Francisco. After getting off at the wrong stop about three stops early today as yesterday we were about three stops late we ended up at Hyde Stree http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-750822.html I have just gone through the last of our photos from Las Vegas and found some of the foyer at The Venetian hope you like them as much as we liked staying there. I have also included photos of Vicki39s birthday card from me and some souvenirs including Vicki39s new Vegas Princess coffee cup.After a really nice light breakfast at our guesthouse we caught the muni to downtown San Francisco http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-750604.html This morning we bid farewell to Las Vegas. We really enjoyed the stay at The Venetian apart from the poor service at breakfast yesterday the whole experience was just first class the whole way. The hotel is outstanding and amazing in every way.As I type the first part of this blog we are at McCarran International Airport at Las Vegas. It really is like a scene out of Total Recall complete with http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-750328.html Yay we have arrived after leaving Monterey we went towards a National park as I wanted to look at the 39Big trees39 also called into Santa Cruz for breakfast a town where nothing opens till 10am even had to wake up the motel receptionist to check out this morning I didn39t think 8am was that earlyWas so excited to arrive in San Fran that we opened our Lansons bubbly to celebrat http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-739202.html Sunday 27th November We left NZ at 15.15pm on Sunday 27th Nov and arrived in LA at 6.30am on Sunday 27th November We had allowed 5hrs as per internet advice to get through customs collect baggage and get to the next terminal to check in again for our flight to San Francisco. I suppose it took about 2hrs so we had a 3hr wait in Terminal 5 for our 11.15am flight to Oakland. We all boarded the http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-668736.html Here it is our last day in sunny San Francisco. It has been cold and foggy most of the time we are here. Especially where we are parked. We drove into the city early today to take care of our grandchildren while Jason goes to work. I did boring laundry which really needed to be done and Gerry took the boys for a short walk with the dog. The pictures of the artwork was along the walk in do http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-633152.html Here we are in beautiful San Francisco. Parked on a 60 foot cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The place we are staying is a glorified parking lot with a club house and a swimming pool. Last night I took a walk around the cliff and talked to some of the travelers. Wow some of the trailers and moterhomes are huge and expensive. But all in all the people are all the same. Warm and friendly. T http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-632353.html Our journey home took us to San Francisco last Thursday 19 May. We continued to have sunny weather but here it was consistently windy especially of an afternoon. With temperatures in the mid teens it was probably our chilliest city so far. The panorama above has been shortened to 90 degrees from the 39Gate39 Jan to San Francisco waterfront on the right.We stayed at the Raddison at Fishe http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-615372.html Feeling the need to hang out with the hippies and pot smokers headed off to Haight n Ashbury to get my groove on.There was no much to see in the area as it is mainly shops. Though there were some cool little boutique stores among a few hippie shops spread out down the street.The clock next to the famous Haight Ashbury street signs is permantly stuck on 4.20 which stopped at some time during th http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-609609.html We arrived here Sunday. We are camped right on the cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The last couple of nights we spent visiting our dear friends Jack and Yolanda. It si always great to see them and see what new projects Jack has up his sleeves. Today we headed into San Fransisco for an entire day of sightseeing. It was a perfect day perfect weather not too cool and clear skies. It was http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-561674.html On leaving San Franciso at the tailend of a coasttocoast USA roadtrip three years ago I promised to come back in the future. So here it is. The start of a new 4 week itinery beginning yeah and ending nooo at the Golden Gate and taking in parts of Oregon Idaho Wyoming Montana Utah Arizona Nevada and California. First up 4 days in San Francisco checking out the Golden Gate p http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-522794.html Well guys here goes...I'm in San Francisco right now after a 4 hour flight from Chicago. I'm telling you no joke I sat next to a Buddhist monk the entire flight to Cali Good omen I think yes. I spent the night in the airport as the plane landed at around 1230 Pacific time...so around 3am our time. Can I just tell you that I'm a hot mess right now HOT MESS. My hair has been washed in an air http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-506728.html San Francisco was a wonderful stop. It is a beautiful old city and the people here are very friendly and helpful to visitors. We arrived and were set up by about 130 or 200 so set out on our first adventure downtown and to have dinner in China Town. We found out we are not very mass transit oriented. First problem being we left our Bart instructions from the RV park in our car. No problem http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-500566.html We lost our WiFi yesterday so I couldn't blog after our day trip so here are pictures from yesterday. What an amazing day. We are so glad we did this drive in the car and not in the RV. We took Rt 1 all the way from Pismo Beach up to Carmel Pebble Beach and Monterey Beach. Absolutely incredible drive Cliffs ocean and Big Sur need I say more. Enjoy the pictures.I will post more after http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-500086.html 9th AprilHappy Birthday DiWhat a fabulous place San Francisco is The shopping the food the architecture the people The hills are very very steep and great for walking down that is and not in high heels. The weather changes every 3 days they say. Friday was hot Saturday was cold Sunday is raining. Hopefully sunny again on Monday. Had a wonderful Italian meal on Friday night at a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-489532.html Sndag den 3. januar onsdag den 6. januar.S kom vi til den sidste destination p vores rejse San francisco. Ved hjlp af vores never lost GPS fandt vi rimelig hurtig frem til vores motel i Nob Hill omrdet som ligger lige i udkanten af centrum. Et ok kvarter med flere sm sjove butikker og masser af cafeer og restauranter nice. Da vi havde en aftale med Catherine og Owen kl. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-465410.html After all the BA strike talk it was a relief just to see our flight up on the departure boards 11 hours later and we arrive in San Francisco to be met by Dan and Dave Jamie's Dad. We headed to their house in San Carlos which is a beautiful area next to a canyon so the views are amazing especially from Dave's brand new house. Still on English time we were happy to get some sleep after some foo http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/Pacifica/blog-465178.html