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After leaving Yosemite a night early we drove to San Francisco. Dan was struggling without a reflective surface to look at himself in and Rich was worried about the eagles and wildlife thinking his little dinky was a mealworm.
San Fran is crazy! The hills are like riding a roller coaster and with Dans driving skills it weren't a smooth ride! First job was to find a hotel, we stumbled across one called the beresford arms. As we were arriving on the day we had to take whatever room was available and the only one they had was the suite...The biggest room in the hotel... And for not a bad price...Perfect?... :S
The suite had a kitchen. Great. Bathroom. Great. Even a bidet for Rich. Great! (his arsecheeks had been producing gasses that would baffle Einstein)...A smoking room. Grea...OH!!! Yes... the room smelt/tasted like a cigarette who'd sprayed itself with 'eau du cigarette'. Perfect for 3 non smoking guests. Rich would go to bed sounding like a pimply, preppy schoolboy (his usual self) and wake up like a hardened, gravely voiced truck driver who'd been smoking 40 a day!
Dan played his much talked about "stay fresh whilst driving" card again and bagged the double bed to himself. Looking back, I think me and rich deserved to share a bed as Dan successfully played this card even after we had dropped the car back at the airport that morning! Touché Dan! Well played sir!
In San Francisco, a place rich fell in love with was a secret bar called '............&...........' that you needed the password '............s' to get in to. Secrets a secret haha! We thought it was so top secret only james bond and obama would know about it! However after standing outside the building for 5 minutes where we guessed it was, we were told the password by both a man walking by and a homeless person! Very James Bond.
On one of the 3 nights out, we hit a bar called Amante. A random bar choice but we had stumbled across a barman who we would continue to do impressions of every minute for the rest of our time in San Francisco. Mikey D. Mikey - "ABOUT A BLOCK, BLOCK AND A HALF" - D. Mikey had a husky voice and a hooped earring. For some reason we became obsessed with doing impressions of this man. 2 heterosexual males and Dan were smitten for reasons unknown. All we know is saying "ABOUT A BLOCK, BLOCK AND A HALF MAYBE, MAYBE TWO BLOCKS, DEFINTELY A BLOCK AND A HALF THOUGH, TELL 'EM MIKEY SENT YA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" is very fun. "GO TO SHANGHAI KELLYS, THE 'R' BAR, THEY'RE ABOUT A BLOCK AND A HALF AWAY, MAYBE 2 BLOCKS".
MikeyD had written us up a bar crawl of the best places to go. After getting to the first, then second and then third we realised MIKEY D liked one particular type of bar, narrow, crowded and dark! A few days later we returned to Amante to see MIKEY one last time, instead of going "your bar crawl was a bit s*** MIKEY", we threw him a bone and went with "it was great, we got back to our hotel at 3am" to which MIKEY replied "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I TOLD YOU IT WAS A GOOD ONE".
Best breakfast in San Francisco is a place called Sears (cheers IMP). Excellent omelettes! Great dinners were at a Mexican restaurant owned by Santana called Maria Maria (thanks Hilarie and Jim) and at BUBBA GUMP SHRIMP restaurant. Great views of the sea and a brain stretching Forrest gump quiz before dinner (what was Forrests 2nd Shrimp boat called?), we had a great last evening with Dan. Most fun being me and Rich splitting the bill and Dan's rusty cog of a brain frantically trying to figure out how much the meal had cost and how much we had tipped! Ha! He will never know!
San Fran- highlights that craigus maximus dingleberry buck didn't mention...
1- cycling to and on the golden gate bridge- being 10 again and attempting to do skids in the gravel- we stopped once my chain popped off
2 Alcatraz- shutter island scary ness- audio tour- so we didn't have to speak to each other- amazing place!
3- LOW point- loosing beer pong to three Aussies in the manly don draper smokers room- hell of a mess
4- riding a tram for 2 stops- lovely 6 buckos spent
5- dan and Craig wolfing down some of my dinner when i was in the freekin restroom- hmmm nice pasta round your chops lads!
6- dominating the juke box playing nothing but the Beatles, stones and Hendrix!
32 hour train ride to Denver updated in a few days.......
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