I’m writing this post at home, the final couple of days were just too long and I didn’t feel like messing around with blogs in the evening 🙂 Anyway, here goes! This day, we leave LA and head North again, back home. But first we’ll stop at San Francisco. The plan is to try to rent a bike and visit the famous bridge. To this end, we get up early and leave LA while the streets are still empty.

The landscape is pretty dry as we drive North, but still beautiful. There aren’t many cities or towns along the I5 towards SF so we travel fast. Soon we drive through endless orchards, where the oranges we eat up North are grown.

Everything goes smoothly until we reach the Oakland Bay Bridge. I don’t have a good connection but I can find out that apparently an accident happened on the bridge. And there’s a baseball game in town, adding extra traffic. Sadly, we’re already past the last exit before the bridge. Which means that it costs us about 3 (!) hours to finally reach the tollbooth and get over the bridge.

By the time we finally reach our motel, it’s too late to try to bike the bridge, so instead we walk down to the docks and to pier 39. SF is how I remembered it from 2009, except the weather is better and it’s WAY more busy. But that makes sense since it’s middle of Summer now and last time it was May.

We wander around the pier and then up to Lombard street, the crooked section, which happens to be filled with tourists in cars wanting to drive it, as well as a heap of people blocking the street at the lower end, taking pictures of that. Of course we have to join in the fun and take a few pics too!

We walk to the top where we can see one of the famous trams (overfilled with tourists), before we walk further West on Lombard Street, since our motel is located at this street too! The day didn’t go exactly as planned but it was still fun to walk around in San Francisco again.