Friday, November 22, 2013

San Francisco

Golden Gate Park




We drove to San Francisco the following morning, returned the rental car to a spot many levels down in a parking garage and walked to our hotel, Hotel Triton, the most bizarre and quirky of the hotels our travel agent had selected for us. 

We were given a room that had excerpts from Jack Kerouac’s “One the Road” as wallpaper.  The lobby had strangely shaped furniture, psychedelic decor and a tarot reader on duty from five PM until sometime later than when we retired for the evening.

Triton Hotel Lobby


Michael and I spent the last three days of the trip in San Francisco visiting with Michael’s sister Ronnie and her husband Steve.  We had three wonderful dinners at three very different restaurants, walked miles around the city, took light rail and antique streetcars, and visited Fisherman’s Wharf, Ocean Beach, the Japanese Garden in Golden Gate Park and many other places.  Our hotel was just at the gate to Chinatown so, of course, we had Dim Sum twice.  San Francisco is such a wondrous city that it is easy to spend time there.
Antique Trolley Running as a Special on Saturday

The Motorman Reattaches the Trolley Pole to the Catenary Wires



Golden Gate Bridge from Fisherman's Wharf

Mt Sutro from Golden GatePark

Carp at the Japanese Garden


Sea Lions at Fisherman's Wharf

Halloween Decoration in Chinatown
Michael at Ocean Beach





 

 

We flew home on Monday, November third and have been home nearly three weeks.  Tomorrow we leave for Ft. Lauderdale and a Caribbean cruise.  I find it very hard to believe that I am actually living this life.



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