left coast part 1….san fran
lil and i headed out west to see the best of no cal. i hadn’t been to san fran since i worked there back in 2000. hard to believe i could go 9 years without seeing a city i love this much. first stop was chinatown…..best bakery in san fran (as far as i know) is the golden gate bakery. PHENONEMAL egg custart tart. remember their baked goods for a subsequent blog post. or, should i say, “remember their baked goods for a subsequent blog post, lillis” as you are the only person who reads this and you bader me to post, even though you were there for every bit of it. i am toying with the idea of typing the rest of this post directly to lillis. thinking. nah. ok, anyway, we then proceeded on for some extremely authentic chinese food.
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it’s a commonly known fact that you…um, i mean lillis….will eat anything, and she was not at all frightened by this place.
i took her picture in front of a trolley just moments before the great nob hill meltdown of ’09 occurred.
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i took this pic of the trolley coming up hyde street (i believe) with alcatraz in the background as lillis was in the middle of her 4 hour nap.
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and then i made my way over to lombard street. honestly, not that impressed, but i figured, it’s one of those things that eventually you should see.
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that evening (after we woke the princess up from her slumber) we went to farallon. it is indubitably one of my most favorite restaurants ever and it did not dissapoint.
the next morning we got up and took the bus over towards the cliff house restaurant and seal rock
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lillis insisted on bringing big al, so he could see the golden gate bridge….
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that evening we went to fisherman’s wharf (which was about 173% more touristy than i had remembered). the highlight there, however, was the sourdough breadbowl soup at boudin. that night we had considered going to catch some music at “top of the mark” (the restaurant/bar at the top of our hotel – the intercontinental), but instead decided that sleeping would be a good way to spend the evening. chance said this kind of behavior was indicative of growing up….i say it’s indicative of growing old.
the next morning, it was up and over to washington square for bfast and coffee and then on to coit tower on telegraph hill. i loved how peaceful it was over there and the views were splendid.
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afterwards, we called for our rental car pickup, stopped by rei to buy lil some new shoes and to buy us both some power bars and some energy goo, and headed on out to yosemite.
I've been waiting for this post, too. 🙂 And, I must also be getting old, for I would've gone with the sleep option as well.