San Francisco

Sorry for no updates in over a week. Last update we were at Klamath River, California. We did spend another day in the Redwood Forest before leaving, but the pictures were very much like the ones I last posted, so no need to add those here. We enjoyed our week on the river, but were glad to move on where we had cell phone service too.

We decided to continue south and are currently in Vallejo, California, about 40 miles from San Francisco. We got here on Monday but didn't make it out for site-seeing until yesterday. We left early yesterday and headed a couple miles from our RV Park to the Vallejo Ferry, which runs between Vallejo and the San Francisco Port. So we boarded the Ferry for the 1 hour drive across the San Francisco Bay to the San Francisco Port, located in downtown San Francisco, and only a couple of miles from Fishermans Wharf.

We spent the day checking out all the sites. We last went to Fisherman's Wharf 10 years ago when we took the boys there. Things are pretty much the same, maybe a little more built up than it way the last time we were there. We walked the entire Pier from 1 thru 42. We ate at one of the local fish places on the Pier. Checked out the seals, piers and eateries. We also thought we'd walk to Chinatown...(it didn't look that far on a map...)Big Mistake! We walked a couple of miles, Uphill--and I do mean Uphill, it was more steep than any hill or mountain I've ever even thought about tackling!

After a couple of miles walking, we realized there were just too many remaining streets, that were all uphill, so we aborted the thought of Chinatown. So we decided to head back towards the San Francisco Ferry to head back across the Bay, it was getting later into the afternoon. Unfortunately, "I" was the one with the map--so it probably isn't a shock to anyone that we ended up Totally LOST! We ended up at the top of Nob Hill...only to discover there are no streets connecting it to roads leading back to the Pier!

We walked THREE PLUS Miles back, re-tracing our steps back to the Pier. Then another mile and a half from Pier 41 to Pier 1, to catch the Ferry. We walked Two solid hours just to get to the Ferry yesterday afternoon and my feet were literally numb for hours. I didn't get any feeling back in my feet until this morning! But besides our fiasco getting out of San Francisco yesterday afternoon, we did have a great time. (Now, will someone tell Mark to Never, Ever let me hold the map or provide directions in the future! Sheesh...you'd think he'd know better by now huh? He he he).

*Check out the Updated Slideshow...I've updated it with all our San Francisco pictures...there's lot's of pictures. Just double click on the slideshow and it should pull up, so you'll be able to 'click' thru each picture individually, in a 4x6 format. Enjoy! Not sure where we're headed next, but we'll let you know as soon as we've figured it out...until later~