Blogs from North Beach, San Francisco, California, United States, North America - page 11

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 bridge, Then the fog rolled back in. From our hotel we can hear the lonely sound of the fog horn across the bay to the Pacific beyond Was 88% this morning, 60 %F here now. ... read more

First outing with our little S. 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 Point(The amateur photographer in me always wanted to get the angle of Golden Gate from there). A sunny weather in south bay forced a huge fog into SF. The day was pleasant, the weather awesome & the place-need you ask? To master SF's roads, you need to probably visit a couple hundred times. Every time I think I know part of it, I get lost in some other part Fort Point is this small(actually very huge from the inside) ruin-like structure just below ... read more

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 sceptical that Clint Eastwood couldn't make it then we definatly couldn't! Alcatraz was pretty cool and had a lot of history other than being a prison. It used to be a military base and then a military prison and it also staged as a protesting zone for native americans and is currenlt as well as been ... read more

Halli Hallo! Christiane ist auf großer Reise. Zuerst war ich 4-5 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 Holzhäusern und einem herrlichen Blick aufs Wasser, die Golden Gate Bridge und Alcatraz. ich hätte nie gedacht, dass die San Francisco Bay so schön ist! Wir waren natürlich auch auf Alcatraz und haben uns die Zellen, in denen unter anderem auch Al Capone gesessen hat, angesehen. Zudem hat man von dort aus auch wieder einen ganz tollen Blick auf die Stadt. Kein Wunder, dass es so viele Ausbruchsversuche in dem 1963 geschlossenen Hochsicherheitsgefängnis gab. Das Wetter war fast immer sonnig aber sehr windig und daher auch echt frisch. Mit meiner Frühlingsjacke habe ich oft gefrohren und habe mir meine Winterjacke ... read more

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 a few homeless people, trying to find the front door (I later found out that I had walked straight past one entrance, just to circle the block and go in on the other side)... Our hotel was a lot better than I had expected, as long as you don't mind a few homeless people outside. Which is more or less ... read more