SF The Final Chapter
I've been back for almost 5 days now, and I finally feel recovered. We took the red eye back on Tuesday, and I wimped out and ended up taking Wednesday off. We finally had some great weather, and ended up having a great rest of the trip. Some highlights:
Muir Woods: Ok, how many of you when you think of redwoods, think of these huge fat trees? Lets just say I was disappointed. The ones we saw were tall, but I was expecting the kind you can drive a car though the middle. I later found out that these trees are a type of redwood, but are known as seqouias, and are only found in extreme spotty locals throughout mostly eastern California. Still some cool trees though.
Napa Valley: We ended up renting a car one day and heading about an hour north on up to Napa Valley. San Francisco is the only town I know of where it is cheaper to rent a car and to park it overnight. Car Rental: $40. Overnight Parking: $42. Gotta love big cities! Anyway, Napa was cool, 1000's of acres of grapes, nothing was real green yet, as the grapes were just budding, but you wouldn't believe the rows and rows. We ended up taking a tour of the Robert Mondavi winery which was extremely cool. Its amazing how tedious wine making is. The tour also included some very good wine at the end and I ended up bringing just a bit back with me. I fell in love with a desert wine they had which was the 2004 Moscato d'Oro.
Golden Gate Bridge: No explanation required.
Alcatraz: Ended up taking the boat out to Alcatraz Island. Cool ride and got to see some good views of the city. This place is a lot bigger than I thought. Its also funny, because The Rock, happened to be on TV the night before we visited. It was pretty cool to walk the halls of the place where some of our nations criminals once called home. It surprised me to find out that the place has been closed since the 1960's and several of the buildings are in a state of disrepair.
ScootCar: We ended up having some free time our last afternoon, so we decided to rent this small little four wheeler and hop around the city. The first one they gave us, wouldn't even go up the smallest of hills, with two big dudes in it, so we ended going back and getting the big boy. This thing was awesome, it was a little intimidating to be surrounded by traffic, but you could go almost anywhere in it, and probably got up to around 30 mph. People were pointing and laughing everywhere.
Muir Woods: Ok, how many of you when you think of redwoods, think of these huge fat trees? Lets just say I was disappointed. The ones we saw were tall, but I was expecting the kind you can drive a car though the middle. I later found out that these trees are a type of redwood, but are known as seqouias, and are only found in extreme spotty locals throughout mostly eastern California. Still some cool trees though.
Napa Valley: We ended up renting a car one day and heading about an hour north on up to Napa Valley. San Francisco is the only town I know of where it is cheaper to rent a car and to park it overnight. Car Rental: $40. Overnight Parking: $42. Gotta love big cities! Anyway, Napa was cool, 1000's of acres of grapes, nothing was real green yet, as the grapes were just budding, but you wouldn't believe the rows and rows. We ended up taking a tour of the Robert Mondavi winery which was extremely cool. Its amazing how tedious wine making is. The tour also included some very good wine at the end and I ended up bringing just a bit back with me. I fell in love with a desert wine they had which was the 2004 Moscato d'Oro.
Golden Gate Bridge: No explanation required.
Alcatraz: Ended up taking the boat out to Alcatraz Island. Cool ride and got to see some good views of the city. This place is a lot bigger than I thought. Its also funny, because The Rock, happened to be on TV the night before we visited. It was pretty cool to walk the halls of the place where some of our nations criminals once called home. It surprised me to find out that the place has been closed since the 1960's and several of the buildings are in a state of disrepair.
ScootCar: We ended up having some free time our last afternoon, so we decided to rent this small little four wheeler and hop around the city. The first one they gave us, wouldn't even go up the smallest of hills, with two big dudes in it, so we ended going back and getting the big boy. This thing was awesome, it was a little intimidating to be surrounded by traffic, but you could go almost anywhere in it, and probably got up to around 30 mph. People were pointing and laughing everywhere.
i couldnt exactly agree with your list of most beautiful women in the world, did you by the way notice, they are all westerners?
You might want to visit Tokyo.
Spanish women are also no doubt some of the most beautiful women.
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