The Saddest Part About San Francisco is Leaving
It was a quick trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco and a welcome sight after being 19 hours on the move. Our first sightseeing tour was to Alcatraz Island. I won’t bore you with the details, but the place is fairly impressive, but it is overrun with over-sized tourist and over-sized seagulls feeding off the over-sized tourists scraps of junk food. All that being said, the Island is definitely worth a visit.
On our way back to the mainland, we checked out the seals who have taken up residence on pier 39, which is not far from where the ferry station is located. The seals, apparently, just turned up one day back in 1989 after an earthquake and have never left. These smelly beasts are protected by state law, before that, they would’ve been turned into minced up meat. The seals just seem to laze about all day and really sink the place up. We felt like we were visiting a smelt.
For the next couple of day, we hit the streets of San Francisco. One of the places we hit was the recently renovated Ferry Building that is now a center for excellent things. like nice food, nice chocolates, nice wines, nice almost everything. We had a great lunch at a San Francisco restaurant. With our stomach’s full and with our tipsiness, we made our way all across the city to the legion of honor. It’s a memorial built in honor of our fallen Americans from the first World War. The memorial has been turned into an art museum with a substantial collection of impressionist and post impressionist works. It also has a nice Rodin sculpture collection.
The next day was time for us to stop walking and drive off to Sonoma Valley for a day excursion of wine, food, swimming and all around fun. We were lucky enough to have already visited the Napa Valley on our last trip to San Francisco. We spent the day tasting wines and for dinner we ate at a superb Italian restaurant. It was late in the evening when we got back to San Francisco and proceeded to crash for the night.
The saddest thing about visiting San Francisco it having to leave San Francisco and all the great food, sights and people.
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