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North America » United States » California » San Francisco » Alcatraz November 5th 2005

This is an old travelogue I wrote up in 2005 outlining my trip to San Francisco with my friend Marta. We'd originally gone over there for an anime convention, but we stayed an extra week in a hostel and saw the sights. (The detail in this log is not what I write in my later logs, but it is the first trip log I'd ever written, and I felt it was appropriate to begin my new travelblog with this.) ++++ This report was written on the road. I left Toronto on October 28th and didn't return until November 4th, so the entirety of this was written on my pda, which would explain the present tense in some parts. Mchan and I made the perilous trek out from the East side of the continent (Toronto, Ontario) to ... read more
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North America » United States » California » San Francisco » Alcatraz January 13th 2000

The Rock in the Bay. The one Clint Eastwood escaped from and the one Ed Harris/Nicolas Cage/Sean Connery fought over. Once the home of Al Capone. It is beautifully located in the San Francisco Bay. Much has been left untouched since this high-security facility was closed down in the 1960’s or so. Comfort and pleasure aren’t the first things that comes to mind here. Not exactly Hotel California. You couldn’t check out any time you like…... read more




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