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So this is our first blog entry in the US... We have now been in San Fran for 3 days and we are loving it even though we have to leave today to start our adventure out into the wilderness... Gonna be fun driving on the wrong side of the road getting out of San Francisco! YIKES!
So we arrived stupidly early at the airport in Sydney... 4 hours early in fact... we should really have checked the flight time on our tickets instead of just remembering there was a 13 in it somewhere... Flight was great apart from a gut wrenching shudder on take off that threatened to loosen a few fillings! Service on the flight was great even though the attendant seemed to take quite a fancy to me.. he was quite a looker tho! Our partner for the flight was a lovely malyasian lady called Poo Wee Kok (humour a plenty) who was more than happy to keep standing up to let us out for toilet breaks! Unfortunately neither of us got any sleep on the flight so we have been pretty jet lagged for the past few days but we are both beginning to feel better now... In true Grove style, i wasn't able to visit a big city without an uncontrollable urge to check out what the health care system was like so ended up seeing a doc and getting some pills for the dreaded hamster lungs! All good tho, nothing to worry about (respective Mums and Dads)
So San Francisco... wow, what a city, stupid hills!! Cable cars are great and you do tend to feel like a monkey hanging off the edges of the car... pretty sure the drivers are just pulling those levers for effect rather than actually driving the thing!
We did a bay cruise which was awesome. It took us out to the Golden Gate Bridge and underneath and then sailed around Alcatraz giving us a pretty good impression of what life must have been like living on 'the rock'... the whole cruise was narrated by the cheesiest commentary ever... USA USA USA!
We saw the world (well USA) famous sea lions at Pier 39 in Fishermans Wharf and took a good few lung fulls of their fragrent odour... yummy... it is amazing to think that there are so many of them living there, was quite a sight to be seen.
Apparently the thing to do at Fishermans Wharf is try the Clam Chowder, so we did, not expecting it to turn up in a loaf of bread! It was delicious though but seemed a bit strange eating the bowl the food came in!
We deliberately picked our hotel based on the fact that it was an art-farty type of place which we thought would be apt for San Fran, well it turned out to be very arty farty complete with receptionist Claude Balls on the front desk... he was the epitomy of all things arty... we will leave you to make your own visions of him! Hotel was nice tho, rooms were small but comfy and all the guests were very friendly.
We have both really enjoyed San Fran and will be sad to leave but the open road calls and we are heading to Napa (the wine region) in a matter of minutes (i think the open road is calling me but i think the wine is calling Jacq)
Will try and upload some photos soon,
Speak soon y'all.
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