Saturday and time to leave this cool city 🙁 Last breakfast in our hotel, sampled the waffles again and Si still managed to resist those burgers!)
We managed to pack in a lot of cool stuff before heading for the hills. Today was all about the Golden Gate.
First stop Golden Gate park and some mild pangs of guilt as I watched lots of people jogging past (too much nice food around here to try to stay slim – and the size of the portions!! Judith, you will be pleased to hear that yes I have put on weight! Must do something about that later!) We wandered around the Japanese tea garden (the Japanese know how to do good gardens!) and had a cup of oolong tea – very nice (thanks for tip Alison).
After the park we headed to the beach – didn’t expect it to be windier than Westport! (beach near Campbeltown) It doesn’t look this windy on the OC! Hopefully won’t be so windy when we head to south California and check out Newport beach etc.
We then drove over the Golden Gate bridge, with the roof down of course! And headed to Muir woods to check out lots of very old, very giant redwoods. It was early evening and quite quiet so I was a little wary of meeting mountain lions but all was fine, only animal we encountered was a cute little dear, even I can handle that!
Long drive ahead of us now as tomorrow we are heading for Yosemite (just a little worried about the bears,esp after Cat’s encounter, hope Si is up to the job of being my protector!)
Good night and god bless.
Simon’s addendum – Driving an automatic is so easy, just stop and go pedals! On motorways there’s also cruise control, so only need to steer. I liked it so much, I drove to the wrong motel, just to get some extra driving in! 😉