San Francisco in November

I just wanted to say, that for our trip to California, the weather was perfect, with the exception of 1 day, when it rained and then part way into our drive back to Oregon.

On our drive "over the hill" from Half Moon Bay, to the Silicon Valley area, to get to Wayne and Olga's house, I happened to see a blimp in the air, as we got closer. I kept trying to get a picture before I lost it in the sky, finally Chuck says, just open the sunroof, after multiple poor attempts at taking a picture. The above picture was a quick, take it through the sunroof, before it heads North (we were heading South).


It's not great, but it was really cool to see, and apparently blimps are more common down in CA as one of the books at the hotel said that tourists could go up in them (something that Chuck would really like to do, but it didn't happen on this trip).

Once we got to Wayne and Olga's house (which was really cute, but I forgot to get a picture of it!), we decided to get some food, Southern BBQ, one of Wayne's favorite places and it was great, if you are heading to the Southern end of the San Francisco Bay and want the name of the place, let me know, I'll get it, it was great food.

Then we headed North to see San Francisco and the sights.

The first spot we stopped was The Cliff House, which I don't think I ever get a good front picture of the front of it, it is a restaurant, but more importantly is a park and has ruins that you can see right before the ocean in the above picture.

The ruins are part of the Bath Houses. We walked around the grounds, including the stairs down towards another view point of the ocean, it was truly beautiful.

Where I saw a blurb on this rock, when I zoomed in and took the picture, I found that I took a picture of 3 Brown Pelicans, the first that I've ever seen in the wild. The next picture is of the same rock from the non-zoomed point of view.

You can barely see it, but that same rock formation has a heart in the middle, see the next picture.

This is the same park that I saw my first view of the Golden Gate Bridge (on this trip).

The man behind the camera here.

The view of the stairs up from the viewpoint.

Moving on, we drove through the Golden Gate State Park (I didn't take any pictures), then headed up to the Golden Gate Bridge.

Alcatraz Island and the San Francisco Bay, lots of sail boats and boats out, since it was gorgeous out.

Golden Gate Bridge


The view of San Francisco, from the Golden Gate Bridge viewing point.

The Golden Gate Bridge from the North side viewing point.

This was a really cool park called Crissy Field. It is a beach with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge, plus it's an off-leash dog park, where dogs can run on the beach or play fetch in the water. It was fun to watch all the dogs play (since we had to leave the puppies at home for this trip).


I think that this would be a great way to sight see, Mr. Toad's Tours, isn't the car cool.

More pictures as soon as I can get them up.