Arrived in san fran and it was cold!!! i'd gotten so used ofthe Las Vegas weather that coming here was like going back to England.....and theres me rocking up in shorts and sandals!! tourist much!...... after dropping stuff at hostel had a brief look round i seemed to be in a pretty good location next to the macys, designer shops and pretty much everything i wanted to see was in walking distance! but as it was so cold i had to head back to get another 10 layers on! the hostel seemed quite quiet and there wasnt many people around. so i decided best option was to go get a shower to warm up properly. next day i met a girl from scotland and we decided to go to the art gallery and become somewhat cultured so went to the museum of modern art and gotta say being an arty person i liked all the art works there had too major ones tht stood out one guardian of the secrets and another tht somehow used your subcontious to draw you in and obviously that worked beacause i couldnt stop staring at it! i even attemped my own google and piece of art needless to say probably not as good as the originals! after we'd wasted half the day in there we headed out to catch the street car to fishermans wharf which was really full of tourists so we didnt spend to o long there but lottie did get the hugest strawberries none to man, and we headed to go see the famous sea lions but there was none.....apperently they went to migrate down south to breed!! i did however manage to get a few shots of alcatrez and the golden gate bridge which was pretty lucky because the fog had been covering them for days.....yes this place is foggy!! on the way back we walked through china town and little italy and it was a right walk san fran is so hilly ill have legs like a trojan! after the walk we went and chilled in union squre for a while in the sun lottie actually managed to get burned ...so we headed back to the hostel were i was talked into going to bastille street party with some of the staff n people saying there...we headed to the street but found out it was $5 to stand there and more for a drink so we headed to this mexican place cheap beer and mojitos...more like it!!! after many drinks and random conversations i found out one girl was called mia louise and as its the same as me instant connection....as the night goes on obviously drunken dancing and the rude jokes man and mia's flashing standard night really. so we decided to head to another place but on the way billie fell over so we had to send her home and we lost the others so trin mia ollie and me turned back and went to a club which had a slide to get in!!! which was obviously super cool to a bunch of drunk people! we managed to get some free drinks and i got a champers off some chick...but was too much for drunk shirt wearing me....i looked like a totall tramp in a club but didnt actually care at the time! after much dancing was time to go get food at carls jr which was rapidly set to become the drunk food place of choice!!

next day went by pretty quick as most of it was spent sleeping and wondering around....later in the day the hostels basement nightclub was opening so we got ready for it and went to check it out....when we went down the stairs it was not what i was expecting at all.... two beer pong tables a poker room and a dance room all with free beer! needless to say i drank as much as i could....we also went to the secret room to get as much vodka as we wanted..we briefly headed out to some piano bar were i ended up sla..during this at some point i ended up covere in pen and cat whiskers which i totally forgot about even when one of my room mates was satring at me in the morning...i was like what you looking at im hungover!!!...next morning we all headed out to fishermans wharf and on the way stopped a million times for coffee food drinks...when we did finally make it to pier 39 tho we wondered round all the touristy shops and took pictures also watched a street preformer called captain jack spare ribs which was pretty good for a street preformer to be fair! on the way back we went through little italy and tied fudge and ate at a lil place were i ordered the most garlicky speghetti ever! needless to say was not what i thought it was goin to be!!! but still ate part of it anyway but definetely didnt tip Ooops! after that we wondered through the seedier area with all the porn shops and lap dancing places and of course we had to go in one i have never seen so much random porn in my life and the little private booths to watch film were ever so slightly wrong especially when you see the guys coming in and out...Nasty!! Of course later that night we headed down for the free beer again we did att........................................in the morning i woke up and was given a vodka shot beacuse apparently sunday everybody needs a holy water but i did however refuse to do the second one even when everyone was chanting! after that i went with the london guys and an american girl sophie to go get a tattoo, which was pretty funny considering james was still drunk probably the reason he got a cat face tattoo'd on him i also went to some random pizza slice joint and a medical canabis place were sophie got a free sample! after heading back and seeing james start to regret the tattoo and sober up i went and changed my hair colour back to normal as i was not enjoying the roots and couldnt get them done out here. as all the nights start in san fran with free beer this night i some how became the dealer in the poker game which is pretty god going considering i have no idea how to play the game...but as i got more drunk i did lose concentration and went a wonder at this point mia took over but i still got tipped at the end for dealing for so long! again blacked out the rest of the night and woke up in bed in the morning...it was then that i had to check out and head to castro were the cool kids hang out and had to wait for louise to arrive.

arriving at elements it seemed a bit far away but was in a different cultural area so i thought i may be able to get away from the crazyness of san fran. i went a wonder down valencia street and mission street to see what was around then headed back to chill for a while sitting i noticed a bug and killed it only to see another a few minutes later so i thought it a bit strange and went online to see if my suspicions were right and of course they were bed bugs!!! discusting little bugs so needless to say i did not sleep at the hostel and just satyed awake till lou arrived early in the morning i told her we were checking out asap and with that lou went to sleep in the looby on the sofa whilst i satyed awake and messed about on skype and facebook. next morning i took some pep pills to keep myself awake and we headed back to the san francisco international. as soon as we got there we somehow agreed to go on a bike ride. which was a stupid idea as i hadnt slept and was already at the weird rambling point! me and mia were tempted by the tandum bike but we all ended up with our own bikes...so off we set the first leg of the journey wasnt too bad but was pretty scary beacuse of being on the wrong side of the roadbut we headed off towards golden gate park by the time we got there the legs were already aching as bikes me and hills do not mix but little did i know this was only the begining of the longest bike journey of my life! at least five hours later and only one stop off to get icecream we headed to golden gate bridge which to be fair the view was really good and you got to see the whole of san fran but at this point my butt was numb and the bike was killing and we still had to bike throught saulistio to get the ferry. although it was really nice there and defiently worth seeing wish we spent more time there but had to rush it due to getting the ferry. on the ferry i knocked out for god knows how long and then we had to bike to the shop before it closed and that was probably the most painful leg of the journey getting back on that bike with my butt killing...and yes later on i did find i had bruised it! damn bike thats my exercise done for a year although i did get to see alot of san fran even if we did get lost several times!! later that night i introduced louto the beer basement were she got involved in the beer pong and i did too briefly but then lost intrest also attempted goin to the clubs but imnstaed again ended up at carls jr with something that resembled a whopper meal.

Next day we hit san fran big style tourist we headed to pier 39 again but on the way hit the china town gate, little italy coit tower which the view was really good from and on the way got mysrelf some Tom's also ate the biggest fishwich ever which actually melted in the mouth. after a long day of dying and walking up giant hills we headed back to the familar sound of billie shouting 'FREE BEER' so without a doubt that is were we ended up again only this time i didnt get drunk as the beer ran out way too quick, so an early night in comparison happened which was probably a good thing as had to check out in the morning. next morning we went on another mad crazy hike to go to loumbard st to see the crookedest street in the world after that we decided we were knackered headed back chilled in union square for a while before heading back and chatting to some of the aussies and heading out to greyhoung which after spending several hours in the station i was happy to see we had a nice grey hound with leather seats and wifi not the crappy smells like piss normal ones we'd been catching...good times!!!