Saturday, August 21, 2010

Summer Vacations 5

San Francisco Trip: Part 5 Final Day in San Francisco

We started the day of by BIKING ACROSS THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE!!  I was so excited about this!  We biked from around Pier 43 over the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito, then to Tiburon, took the fairy back to Pier 39 then biked back to Pier 43, for a total of around 18+ miles.

220223 224 About to head over the bridge227Stopping on the bridge to take a picture

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San Fran in the background

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  Looking down…it was so high!237 I did not see this sign when we were biking across but I was told that out of all the bridges in the world, the Golden Gate Bridge has the most suicides, over 1200!  Crazy!!  NO thank you, I was scared to even look over the edge!

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We made it to Sausalito, such a cute town! 239 Biking up one of the many hills, we saw a deer crossing the street.  I was able to get my camera out and snap a few shots before it jumped over the fence.242We made it to Tiburon, but we weren’t quite finished.  Charlie was a little exhausted.

244 246The Finish Line, we made it! 255 After biking it was time for In-N-Out Burger and sight seeing around town. 257  258Lombard Street – the crookedest street

266 The Cable Car Museum

259 267The cables that the cars run on

268 That night we headed to Chinatown for dinner at House of Nanking and we visited the Fortune Cookie Factory.

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In the Westin St. Francis after riding the elevator, to get a good view of Union Square.

274   We all had a great time in San Francisco!  It was such a fun vacation and I would love to go visit again someday.  Now to plan Glickerson Summer Vacation #3…where to go, where to go?

2 comments:

Natalie said...

The trip looked like so much fun! So jealous! ;)

Karol Anne said...

ok you forgot to mention that we almost didnt get to do anything that night because of the nazi bus driver and charlie and j wanting to make a run out of the emergency exit doors!! ah! hahaaha