Brownbikerbabe
22nd March 2006, 12:00
Hi all,
Our trip to San Francisco was fabulous...what a beautiful state and the people were soooooo friendly it was almost unreal.
A girlfriend and I even ventured over to 16th street, where you are not to go after dark, it was day light but it was still scary. We passed a mexican restaurant and they had a live band inside, we decided to go in and it was like the movies when everything and everyone stops and stares at you. Here we are, an eastindian brown chick and a chinese chick in the worst part of San Fran hoping to be served some nice mexican food, I was shaking, I had no clue what to order, thank goodness they had pictures of the food, because no one spoke english in the restaurant. Needless to say we ate and got the heck out of there. But it was an adventure.
Saw lots of bikes, I have no idea how they get up and down those extra steep hills and they lane share and drive in between cars, how do you stop on a steep hill without rolling backwards all the time?
While I was trying to catch my breath and let the burning sensation in my thighs go away at the top of Lombard Street (the crookedest street) I saw a motorcyclist come up the hill and all of a sudden there was smoke coming out of his engine...not a good sign.
A cab driver told us that his car will last about 3 years there and then he has to get another one because of the hills.
Tons of windy, hairpin roads outside of San Fran. I drove them with a car when the girls and I went to Monteray and it was scary especially the coast, when the fog was rolling in, it was getting dark and not knowing the road, the Pacific ocean beneath the cliff on one side and a mountain on the other side of a two lane road with no exits for miles...Highway 3, fun, beautiful and scary in the dark.
After hubby joined me we went Alcatraz, the aquarium on Pier 39 had dinner at Bubba Gump Shrimp, then drove to Jackson and stayed with a friend and then to Sacramento, we found Old Sacramento by accident, it great too, found the local biker hang out there but there was a long line up to get in for dinner so we, hubby and I, left.
Will definitely go back again...
Our trip to San Francisco was fabulous...what a beautiful state and the people were soooooo friendly it was almost unreal.
A girlfriend and I even ventured over to 16th street, where you are not to go after dark, it was day light but it was still scary. We passed a mexican restaurant and they had a live band inside, we decided to go in and it was like the movies when everything and everyone stops and stares at you. Here we are, an eastindian brown chick and a chinese chick in the worst part of San Fran hoping to be served some nice mexican food, I was shaking, I had no clue what to order, thank goodness they had pictures of the food, because no one spoke english in the restaurant. Needless to say we ate and got the heck out of there. But it was an adventure.
Saw lots of bikes, I have no idea how they get up and down those extra steep hills and they lane share and drive in between cars, how do you stop on a steep hill without rolling backwards all the time?
While I was trying to catch my breath and let the burning sensation in my thighs go away at the top of Lombard Street (the crookedest street) I saw a motorcyclist come up the hill and all of a sudden there was smoke coming out of his engine...not a good sign.
A cab driver told us that his car will last about 3 years there and then he has to get another one because of the hills.
Tons of windy, hairpin roads outside of San Fran. I drove them with a car when the girls and I went to Monteray and it was scary especially the coast, when the fog was rolling in, it was getting dark and not knowing the road, the Pacific ocean beneath the cliff on one side and a mountain on the other side of a two lane road with no exits for miles...Highway 3, fun, beautiful and scary in the dark.
After hubby joined me we went Alcatraz, the aquarium on Pier 39 had dinner at Bubba Gump Shrimp, then drove to Jackson and stayed with a friend and then to Sacramento, we found Old Sacramento by accident, it great too, found the local biker hang out there but there was a long line up to get in for dinner so we, hubby and I, left.
Will definitely go back again...