We arrived in San Francisco around 2:30 in the afternoon. After checking in to our hotel and getting in a short nap, we got back into our car and drove across the Golden Gate Bridge. We stopped at both side of the bridge to get a different view and for some photo opportunities. We then walked across it! We were very lucky that the weather was in our favor at this moment. When we arrived, there was this huge low cloud covering the top of the bridge, so it was a good thing we took a nap earlier, because right now we have a perfect view.
Coming in from Yosemite to San Francisco, we noticed an extreme drop in temperature, we had to wrap up against the chill and the wind. We were wind swept going across the bridge, but we made our way back to our car and drove to the famous Lombard Street.
It’s that street you see in all the movies or television shows, the one that’s all crooked and it goes from the Presidio to the Embarcadero. The one stretch that’s in the movie, the red-bricked road that is in-between Hyde and Leavenworth streets has eight tight, sharp switchbacks. In 1922, a resident who was a forward-thinker thought that the switchbacks would help drivers and pedestrians alike deal with the 27 degree slope.
From there we drove to Fisherman’s Wharf and walked around for a bit. We hadn’t eaten since breakfast, we were rather hungry. We decided to have an early dinner at Bubba Gumps, which by the name you should be able to tell what they served there. After several dishes of eating all kinds of different ways to prepare shrimp, we walked around Pier 39 where we found a lovely and expensive chocolate shop. We were in heaven. We walked around a bit more and saw some very smelly Sea Lions. The shops were closing down, so we headed back to our car and to our hotel San Francisco offers to its many tourists and travellers and crashed out for the night.
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