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Published: March 23rd 2011
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First of all I have a mistake to set right 😊
Not that it is really important but the reflecting pool is not the one on the pictures in front of the capitol building. It is the one between Lincoln and Washington monument, which as U could see in one of the previous pictures was dry and under reconstruction.
OK, so like I said today I needed to get to California, and that was pretty much it.
The flight left at 5pm which meant that I had all the time in the world to get to the airport.
Checked out at 11am, and went for a walk basically.
A walk which took me to Chinatown, they have one in most major cities I guess over here.
Chinatown DC was nowhere near as impressive as the one in NYC but ye, what did I expect?
At around 1am I took the train to where I was taking the bus to the airport.
That all went smoothly and so did checking in.
And that's where I am at now, waiting to board in Baltimore airport...
So besides perhaps adding that everything until now went as hoped and turned out to be
whole lotta fun, I guess I don’t have anything to add.
Oooh this might be a good time to talk a bit about my backpack 😊
Most people I talked to expected me to, since I was going away for about half a year, to carry two 95liter backpacks, or at the very minimum one.
And made all kinds of funny faces when told them the size of what I was going with.
So I am travelling with a(the north face site says it is I believe) Northface Borealis 27liter pack, and I couldn’t be happier about that fact.
I know I know, im just away for a week so cant really judge yet but I have been thinking about what else I could possibly need on this trip for the entire ride here and I couldn’t think about anything.
Also when I see most other backpackers huffin n puffin(and sweating) under there towering packs, a big relief strikes me that I don’t have such a burden with me.
Ok I arrived in San Fran hostel.. and I am getting outa here asap.
It is kind of as I expected, young dudes much as myself, or probably nothing
like myself, discussing liberal free markets and similarities between the French and US economics... in French !!
Na I don’t really mind but they have been going on ever since I arrived over an hr ago.
So I planned to stay two days in SF but turns out I only have one day, which is OK since I didn’t find a huge deal of stuff I needed to do here( unless I wanted to visit a number of art galleries, I think I could get round in a full day).
Anyway, the way over here was a good time.
The flight got here in two parts, making a stop in … Charlotte :p
Anyway, when descending over California by night, watching out the window, I saw a whole lot of cities and wondered which one was SF...
But o-boy was it clear which one SF was when I saw it – it was huge !
And im not talking pretty huge, I’m talking five times gazillion humongous-huge, ok its like five cities together(including Oakland and a couple of others) what I saw but still...
And it was sooooo beautiful, a gigantic city by night seen from the sky... I
would dare even say it was romantic 😉
Arriving in San Francisco city, in the middle of the night, with nothing but an address … was an experience on itself.
There wasn’t anything remotely threatening to be found, some homeless people, taxis and a couple of pedestrians.
OK this was San Francisco, the wussiest city of the world, but still, I expected at least a drugdealer or two on my 20minute walk finding the hostel.
So I arrived pretty late(I think it was around 1am), did some internet stuff till I got annoyed by those darn frenchies, when I went to bed.
My day in San Francisco.
I left pretty early at ten or so and decided to walk northbound.
Which after a couple of blocks uphill evened out and then started going down hill.
After encountering a cathedral, some garden and a lot of hippies I found out I was walking straight towards Fisherman's Warf.
Which was good as I had read somewhere it was one of the must-see's in hippie-ville.
Fisherman’s warf is pretty much an extremely tourist minded dock-area with besides fish restaurants, fish shops, a whole lot of souvenir shops and attraction-boat docks.
As
I don’t like fish or tourists too much(im not a tourist, im a traveller 😉) I didn’t stay too long and started making my way following the waterline to the west.
With the Golden Gate in the distance San Francisco turned out to be a nice place to walk when its flat.
The walk took me trough parks, beaches, modern art galleries(of which I visited one, I liked the photography part) and the palace of fine arts.
A building designed by the famous architect Maybach for the San Fran Expo(don’t think too much about it, I just know these kind of things and it wasn’t some lady helping me find the way that told me that.).
After a bit of a walk I arrived at the bridge where I first had some fun with birds and peanuts and then decided to go and check it out.
So there I was, in the middle of the Golden Gate bridge, having a good time with da camera.
The cool parts of the bridge being the two pillars and the thick cables were even more impressive as U would expect.
And being on the bridge made the big container ships passing underneath
look rather small, which was a cool thought, U know 'everything is relative'.
And that was pretty much it.
I walked halfway the bridge and back(so technically I walked the entire length) and thus had done all I wanted to do in San Fran.
Took the bus back and went to eat in a very cool looking diner.
U know like those road restaurants like the one in 'Pulp fiction' at the start of the movie where he goes 'allright everybody stay cool, this is a robbery' .. just like that ! :o
So here I am, at the hostel, writing my blog and ordering my pictures.
Tomorrow I will take the plane to Vegas at noon, its just an hour flight or so.
Greetings from the wild wild west,
Pieje!
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Rob
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peter u blog is af man. Vind het een plezier om te lezen. Hoop dat het in de minder ontwikkelde landen ook zo up-to-date is. Mijn uitspraak geldt nog steeds. Als ik de lotto of zo win, kom ik achterna! Het ziet er geweldig uit! En een hele prestatie met de kleine rugzak :-)