Blogs from Pacifica, San Francisco, California, United States, North America - page 5

Efter vores morgenmad, kørte vi mod nord til San Francisco. Vi kørte op langs med kysten, ad hovedvej nr. 1, en rigtig flot tur, at køre der langs med Stillehavet og nyde udsigten over slugter og dale. Samt at se både havørne, skarver, jordergern og søelefanter. Vi sluttede af med at køre ind til Carmen ved Monterry, syd for San Francisco, inden vi forsatte til vores hotel ved San Francisco lufthavn.... read more

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 Burger for lunch. I should've got a double cheeseburger burger. :( Next stop, Columbus Street where Karina had seen some buildings with artwork that she wanted to photograph. She also got some good shots of ... read more

San Francisco, The Mission, 23-11-2002. I've decided that today's excursion will have to be The mission, a spanish speaking enclave of San Francisco, one of the oldest neighborhoods and inhabited mainly by mexican emigrants who have left their homeland behind in a desperate search for a better life. Down in their homeland stories abound in the dusty aldeas of mainland Mexico. Family members, friends and acquiantances who made it across the heavily guarded border, people who came from the impoverished shanty towns of Mexico Ciudad, la gente mexicana who often had less to eat as the rats that inhabited the iglesias locales. If there was anything at all in their vidas pobres it were the dreams they harboured, dreams of a better life, a big american automobile with a brick house that has many rooms, a ... read more

Northern Yosemite Tuesday 23rd September 2008 Well, this surpassed our expectations! The Northern part of Yosemite is sensational; high rugged peaks, thick pine forest, crystal clear mountain lakes and huge granite outcrops and vertical faces, which some intrepid mountaineers were climbing. It is further to drive to get to these northern parts of the national park and then one needs to do a lot of hiking about to enjoy the full experience, so maybe that is why less tourists venture up here and go to the valley instead. It is high up, but the drive up the Tioga Road is OK, in fact we drove some far more winding routes with nasty vertical drops over the last week crossing the Sierra to get here. Only once did we both feel a bit dizzy for a few ... read more

Hi all, we are now back in San Fransisco to start our tour of the National Parks, this will take about 28 days. No piccies this time, computer still running on steam. Well, our time at Lake Tahoe was fantastic. We stayed at the Rustic Cottages, at $84 a night, the guy in charge could not do enough for you, see the piccy 'Lurv Shack' for an idea of it. All coffee and drinks fresh and free, free razors, shampoo, conditioners etc...free mugs.. and he allowed on his pc for a while. We climbed many mountains, Squaw Peak and Immigrants Peak, upto about 9,500 feet, played in the snow. California currently has upto 1,000 fires at the moment so sometimes the pictures look a bit foggy. The only rain we have seen in our two + ... read more