Our goal today (Tuesday) was to go to Golden Gate Park and to use some of our ‘Muni’ credits. To do this we first needed to find out which routes went there (7, 71 and 5) and thus visited the California Welcome office at Pier 39. We used a mixture of Cable, Bus and Tram [...]
Archive for July, 2009
28 Jul
San Francisco
Sunday day 1 of 2 (this post) We had a lie in today. This was the first day that I’ve not been up and about between 6.00am and 6.30am (work is so hard to shake off). We were going to pick up breakfast on the hoof anyway, so there was no real rush. We walked [...]
26 Jul
The Roller Coaster
(Saturday) Well, if yesterday was all I hoped the journey would be – today was more than that. Much more. However, before I progress I must introduce Geoffrey. Geoffrey, is Sharon’s name for our TomTom SatNav, which we bought with both French (used at Easter) and American maps. He has been our guide all the [...]
25 Jul
The Giant Redwoods
Friday Breakfast at the B&B was once again excellent. One huge and very tasty sausage (plus half of Sharon’s) with three slices of French toast (I only managed two) with a compote of apple and maple syrup. Accompanied with yogurt and fresh blueberries. Mmmm. After this morning’s breakfast we set off for California. We will [...]
25 Jul
Onwards from Bandon
Written Friday (1 of 2) We woke yesterday to a very overcast and cold day. We couldn’t decide what to do. First up though, we needed a fleece for Sharon; I had my waistcoat (yea!), so that we would be warm enough whatever we did. Then we called at the coffee shop for mediocre coffee [...]
23 Jul
The Oregon Trail
This bit covers two days, as we have had intermittent or no Internet en route. Today (– well obviously not, but bear with me…), Tuesday, we packed our bags and set off on our road trip from Seattle to San Francisco. We’d bought return tickets with Grayline http://graylineofseattle.com The ‘Downtown Airporter’, when we arrived at [...]
21 Jul
Lake Day
Day 6 Today, we plan to take a trip around the Pike Place area, visit the Aquarium and take a trip around the bay. Well, I’m not sure what they call it really. It’s called Puget Sound and from where we stand it looks like a lake – but the locals seem to call it [...]
20 Jul
Sunday in Seattle
Day Five Jet lag being what it is, we were up an about fairly early and decided to walk into Space Needle Park. Hopefully, we would pass one of Seattle’s fabled coffee shops and stop by for breakfast. And we did! We found Top Pot Café on 5th Avenue between ‘Downtown’ and the park. I’d [...]
19 Jul
Seattle
Day four Saturday Nothing much to report today – up and off to the airport and then a 6 hour flight to Seattle. Which, incidentally went very well. Jet Blue don’t have first class seats, so they can give slightly more leg room to others and offer, for a small charge even more legroom – [...]
18 Jul
Brooklyn
Day 3 – Friday We arranged to meet Gail and Jaime for a ‘Borough Day’. We discussed what we might do last night and Gail suggested that as we’ve been to New York several times before (meaning Manhattan) and have ‘done’ all the touristy things – we might enjoy a Borough Day. This meant choosing [...]
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