pics from multiple trips into San Francisco, including on New Years Day 2001
after leaving Monterey ... to prove i was actually here
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some missionary who was important for some reason i just cannot remember ... oh boy, my memory is really going :)
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San Francisco skyline from the highway as we approach the city
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the Bay Bridge over which we went by accident one day because a detour led us here without any warning
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looks really cool ... and we did get an added bonus of a trip to Oakland on the other side of the bay
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the city in all its foggy glory
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and a view of the hill with Coit Tower on it, and piers at the bottom
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driving along the Embarcadero where all the piers are located ... notice the classic Californian palms
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more palms ... gotta love dem palms :))
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me, on the top of the hill on which Coit Tower is located, with an itty-bitty view of the city behind me
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Alcatraz as i first saw it from the top of the Coit Tower
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and the Golden Gate bridge in the distance
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a view of the gridiron city streets with an interesting perspective attached because of the height of the tower
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the Bay Bridge in the other direction
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and the Coit Tower from outside ... i think it was named for some Coit person who was a benefactor of the Fire Department
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official entrance to Chinatown ... i have a fridge magnet of this too !
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streets in Chinatown ... very busy and we couldnt find parking ... only difference is that all the shops were Chinese and non-Chinese people were scarce
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architecture that would be very out of place is this wasnt Chinatown
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Edward and i outside a store selling very much Asian stuff
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SFO had lots of hills and this was a typical very straight road that went down the hill and then up another
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Ghirardelli Square ! Jackpot !!!
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the old chocolate factory ... yummmm
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Anne and i sitting outside the main store (where i did buy lots of goodies)
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me, Anne and Edward drinking hot chocolate in the Ghirardelli Coffee Shop ... what more could i possibly want :))
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Edward hyper-bowling in the Sony Metreon ... this was a virtual bowling game where you used a large trackball-like gizmo to control your ball ... loads of fun
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me trying to get my ball down the streets of SFO to the pins at the end
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and i must be having fun from the very strange expression :)
