Profile
Blog
Photos
Videos
Ok so no idea what happened to last blog as seems to have been cut off and i wrote so much more than that which is really annoying so what i was trying to say in that last sentence is why does everyone in this city ask you for money if you stand still for too long!
So where was i? the bridge? Wendy and I biked across one side of the Golden Gate bridge to the other in about 15 mins and onto the terrifying slopes to Sausalito which is a lovely little almost mexican town on the other side of the bay where the sun was shining and so much warmer there! We locked up the bikes (with a little difficulty as both of us never used d locks before!) and spent the afternoon window shopping around all the little shops that seemed a little on the expensive side. Had some lunch and (tuna melt) caught the ferry back via angel island and dropped the bikes off at pier 41 and headed down to see my little friends the sea lions so wendy could get a video of them barking away like i have.
We then had a mad scramble to get back to the hostel to get ready and join the thursday bar crawl where we caught muni bus to market st and walked to this bar i cant remember the name of but had a giant leopards skin cow hanging outside it, i believe it to be in the SoMa/Mission area but where I dont know...!
The drinks were a dollar amazingly, met loadsa people, including Ai who was to be new found friend until left on monday!
This is were we met intense tim - the short and tall of the story ive told so many times it drives me crazy is that this guy was weird...tall cricket player looking guy from new zealand, the type that doesnt smile and uses your name alot when he talks to you...anyway he didnt have a camera so i took a picture of him and this guy (who i thought he'd been chatting to but apparently not) who had a funny tash.
So i didnt speak to him again all night and missing out loads of in between bits of the night basically in the morning the new girl below me was like have you all got your keys and camera and we were all like yeah why? she said a guy had come into the room (the locks dodgy on the door) and put his hand over her mouth (to prevent her from screaming i guess) and said that someone in the room had his camera and that the girl had given him her keys all of which turned out to be lies, of course it took wendy and i a while to figure it all out until she went downstairs and he was staring at her in the internet cafe and saying in his creepy way that he was really drunk last night. I saw him not long after this and he started to ask me for my camera so he could upload the picture and we made our excuses got his email address and made a run for it, I never saw him again after this because the next night tammy (the girl underneath me who he put his hand over her mouth) went on the bar crawl on friday and wendy and i did not. We got woken up at 4.50am on sat morning with her barging in room switching the light on and dragging one of other roomies caitlin out of bed the give a statement to the police! i thought she was a drunk crazy yank but when i looked out the door from my top bunk i could see a member of SFPD with his gun outside the dorm room door. The story is quite fuzzy (no one i knew went apart from this guy matt from my floor and of course tammy who we reckon was a bit of a nut job anyway) and no one really knows what went down but apparently her camera went missing and she confronted tim and all went pear shaped and she called the police in which case her camera turned up and tim got arrested for assault rather than theft (we still dont know if he actually stole the camera and think if it hadnt have gone missing he wouldnt have got arrested) and was probably sent back to nz and his wonderful law career in tatters.
Nightmare! anyway back to thurs night we went onto a club called cat club which is def
in SoMa area (South of Market Street) and my english accent is still a novelty for most although i met israelis, filipinos, mexicans, dutch in this club. i was quite annoyed when the bar shut at 1.45am because of californian federal law which was a bit rubbish...although the club was open till 3am. somehow my friends and i didnt get to bed until 5.30am which is how i missed out on the 'intense' tim coming into the bedroom business.
I missed the free brekkie on friday last week due to not getting in till 5.30am which was annoying but got to experience true american breakfast the 2x2x2 -pancakes with maple syrup, scrambled eggs, sausages etc. Spent friday around union sq and market street discovering american clothes shops like old navy and macys and abercrombie & fitch. Found a brasilian shop (one of many here) that sold guarana (for those who dont know the most popular brasilian soft drink made from guarana berries) so i was happy. I can't remember what i did in between that and the free din dins (i guess thats the trouble with updating your blogs over a week later) which was shep pie which was nicer today than it was last friday i tell thee!
I cant remember when Jana (the german girl) arrived but this was the day that she started to leave the window open and its really cold and the gnats took a liking to my arm and shoulder. She kept that window open all week even when we said to her its too cold and loud, annoyingly she had control over it because its above her bed (wendy says she had same problem with a japanese girl and the air conditioning in hawaii).
On saturday wendy, ai and i (funny troubles with ai's name) went to haight ashbury and something possessed me and i bought 2 tops an dress and a toy monkey (who has been named cloud burger hasbury - you had to be there trust me) who is to be my mascot and will have his own myspace page once i finally if ever upload my pix.
we spent all afternoon wandering around hippy town, im so gutted the 40 years since summer of love (1967) is on sunday 10th the day after i leave theres a massive street fair to celebrate, didnt stop me buying a t shirt though with the date on it which is kind of cool as its the one day that will never happen for me as i cross the date line straight into the 11th.
oooh this was the day i saw a huge revolving door in nordstroms smash on loads of people although i dont believe anyone was severley hurt we could smell a lawsuit a mile away.
went out on this night with ai (who by the way is born and bred aussie but his whole family are from i believe vietnam) and his friend hieu (a girl oddly despite the name) who is from san francisco and we went out again in SoMa to a club called mr.smiths. wendy didnt come as was feeling ill. i was the only english person
in there and ai was the only aussie, it seems only san franiscans come to this place, they loved us though! again being a novelty means free beer!!
I think i rolled into my dorm about 4am after drinking and eating pizza in the bartol building which is the same hostel sep building oddly...
slept in on sunday of course and wendy (dont know if i mentioned but shes welsh and speaks fluent welsh but lives in liverpool so has liverpudlian accent) came back having gone on a massive spree as her credit card company had extended her limit by 500 quid (shes at the end of her trip) and she had bags from bloomies and sephora and the like, she counted and she had spent $340 which is what 170 quid. she said something just came over her and being a poor
backpacker for the last 4 months with no money she went mental for 2 hours on a spree. god i hope that doesnt happen to me!
we went out for dinner with jana (after i had made cloud burger the monkey some clothes out of the lost property draws in our dorm) to the stinking rose garlic restaurant in little italy, the food was heavenly and i even ate garlic ice cream!
There are other little funny bits that have happened from basically living in the hostel like seeing everyone in jim jams waiting in the morning at breakfast (some people actually wear silk pyjamas here!) and people getting naked in the dorms. wendy had the most difficult experience of new age hippy traveller caitlin who is not a small woman chatting to her completely topless!
I'm going to leave the rest (monday to friday) to update tomorrow after ive checked out and have nout to do until i get BART to san francisco international. apologies for any bad pelling/punctuation/lack of capital letters!!!
- comments