15 November ‘07
Thursday
We were at the Vallejo ferry parking lot an hour before our 10am departure to San Francisco. This also gives us time for picking up our day passes and have a much needed cup of coffee before hitting “The City By The Bay”. The ride across the bay from Vallejo takes just over an hour and at this time of the morning we were fortunate not to have a full ferry. Louise and I sat at one of those long bench seats with a long table between them, which has room enough for at least 6 to sit comfortably. We did have a young lady join us. I’ve found while traveling, that I enjoy listening for accents and trying to determine where their home land might have been or is today. Well Petula was from Ireland and for the hour that we were crossing the bay, I’m afraid that we dominated her “quiet time”. We thoroughly enjoyed having met her and exchanging stories and remembrances of Ireland.
Fact is we met and talked with other tourists that were visiting from places like Turkey, Great Britain, Greece, Italy and Denmark…we really enjoyed talking with everyone and again, it reminds us just how small the world is. San Francisco is known for their cable car systems, dining/bars, shopping, the financial district with the Transamerica Pyramid, and entertainment (we enjoyed the “street entertainers”). I’m sure there are many more things that the Bay City is known for but that’s what we were in town for today.
We rode every route the cable cars took and we jumped off often to visit places like China Town,
Fisherman’s Wharf,the Maritime Historical Park, Lombard Street (the crookedest street in the world), and a couple of beautiful cathedrals. We also saw while riding the ferry, the Golden Gate Bridge,
the Bay Street Bridge, Alcatraz, an island Bed and Breakfast, and a lot more…it was a full day of sightseeing this great city, and thank God we had perfect weather for it.