We were meant to meet Martin and Star for lunch in the Haight district today, but Martin had to work. But we'd scheduled a visit to the Haight in our sightseeing tour so we went there anyway. It was formally hippie central and there is definitely that vibe still going on. The best way to describe it is it's like Camden with loads of tattoo parlours, second-hand clothes, books and music shops. It was another really hot day and we weren't really in the mood for...

We were quite tired today as last night an alarm went off in our apartment building and woke us up. We had no idea what it was but no one evacuated the building so I guess it was nothing serious, which is lucky as according to Steve I was still asleep for about 10 minutes after the alarm started! We'd planned to go to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) today as it was included in our CityPass, but there was another gay rights protest going on outside City Hall...

The weather remained to be gloriously hot and sunny so we decided to use the Bay Adventure Cruise ticket in our CityPass. It is a one hour cruise that departs from Pier 39 and sails along the city's waterfront, past the Pier 39 sea lions, under the Golden Gate Bridge, by Sausalito, past Angel Island and around Alcatraz. We had some time to kill before our cruise departed so we wandered around Pier 39 for a bit. We knew the boat ride would be pretty smo...

Steve recognised the Palace of Fine Arts in the guidebook as it was in the movie Kuffs, so he was quite keen to see it. We had to take 2 buses to get there but that wasn't a problem with the CityPass as you have unlimited use - the only problem was the crazy bus driver who drove too fast and stopped too suddenly! On the second bus (the number 30) we went down Chestnut Street, which I'd heard had lots of nice shops and restaurants and it seemed like a really nice ...

On our way to the library we witnessed a car accident, as we were just about to cross the road. Well actually Steve witnessed the accident; I was quite oblivious as to what happened and only saw the broken headlight that came rolling towards me. The man that got hit was driving a big black pick-up truck, which was obviously his pride and joy as he stared at us in disbelief that his beautiful ride had been smashed into and he said to us: "Why?! Why man? Why...