Last Disco in San Francisco
Well, Saturday the 3rd of December, and it's the last day of our visit to San Francisco. Today was a bit of an odds and ends day, we all did the stuff we wanted to get to, but missed out on in the last couple of days.
After an early start and breakfast at a diner down the road, I went for a walk all the way down Market street, through the financial district of the city. Did I mention how much I love tall buildings? I'm going to New York!
Also, I walked through a tunnel... not sure why that's important, but it was a pretty cool tunnel.
My wanderings also took me past San Francisco's oldest restaurant (est 1849), and a stretch jeep.
Once I got back to the hostel, I decided to sit out on the fire escape for a while. Soon, the rest of the family got back from their various travels, and we all drove out to the pacific coast, and the ruins of the old city baths. Amongst other things, there was a tunnel going to nowhere, huge waves, a photographer and a male model doing a photo shoot and a very hopeful tree.
Moving on to Golden Gate Park, we all went to check out San Francisco's beautiful Japanese gardens, with its teahouse, waterfalls, cute wildlife and intentionally overexposed photography (>_> <_<).
Driving to the outskirts of the city, we came to twin peaks, with its oddly shaped radio tower and a stunning, rarely seen alternate view of the city, which really gives you an appreciation of the scale of the place (We barely ventured outside of about 1/5th of the built-up area).
This evening, I wnet on a walking mission to capture some last pictures of this beautiful town, including the glow from the neon signs outside a strip joint, and this hotel, which looks like it would be more suited to gotham city than SF, but was in fact the setting for a scene from the Hitchcock classic, Vertigo.
Overall, a thoroughly enjoyable day and a fitting goodbye to a city I've come to appreciate more and more over the course of these last few days. I certainly hope to come back here eventually, and more fully explore this wonderful place.
Tomorrow we're off early early to Yosemite national park, where, I've just been informed, we will have wireless internet access, so expect an update around this time tomorrow. 'til then.
After an early start and breakfast at a diner down the road, I went for a walk all the way down Market street, through the financial district of the city. Did I mention how much I love tall buildings? I'm going to New York!
Also, I walked through a tunnel... not sure why that's important, but it was a pretty cool tunnel.
My wanderings also took me past San Francisco's oldest restaurant (est 1849), and a stretch jeep.
Once I got back to the hostel, I decided to sit out on the fire escape for a while. Soon, the rest of the family got back from their various travels, and we all drove out to the pacific coast, and the ruins of the old city baths. Amongst other things, there was a tunnel going to nowhere, huge waves, a photographer and a male model doing a photo shoot and a very hopeful tree.
Moving on to Golden Gate Park, we all went to check out San Francisco's beautiful Japanese gardens, with its teahouse, waterfalls, cute wildlife and intentionally overexposed photography (>_> <_<).
Driving to the outskirts of the city, we came to twin peaks, with its oddly shaped radio tower and a stunning, rarely seen alternate view of the city, which really gives you an appreciation of the scale of the place (We barely ventured outside of about 1/5th of the built-up area).
This evening, I wnet on a walking mission to capture some last pictures of this beautiful town, including the glow from the neon signs outside a strip joint, and this hotel, which looks like it would be more suited to gotham city than SF, but was in fact the setting for a scene from the Hitchcock classic, Vertigo.
Overall, a thoroughly enjoyable day and a fitting goodbye to a city I've come to appreciate more and more over the course of these last few days. I certainly hope to come back here eventually, and more fully explore this wonderful place.
Tomorrow we're off early early to Yosemite national park, where, I've just been informed, we will have wireless internet access, so expect an update around this time tomorrow. 'til then.
posted by Jono Russell at 5:32 pm
3 Comments:
SF looks so cool! I'm not usually one for appreciating cities, but that looks fantastic! especially the hotel.
SF looks so cool! I'm not usually one for appreciating cities, but that looks fantastic! especially the hotel.
hmm... i'm running out of original things to say.... but, ditto?
photographs are still amazing, even if my fossil of a computer still takes aaaaggggeeeesssss to upload them....sigh :P
im glad the comments are working again!
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