19 -21 May-San Francisco

With the excitement and stress of Tyron and Maria's wedding behind us, we head for OR Tambo. 30 hours and a couple of sleeping tablets later we hit the streets of San Francisco running.

As always we like to do things the hard way, so we lug our bags onto the local train called the BART and then catch 2 Muni buses to our hotel near Golden Gate. The Travelodge turns out to be an excellent find, well situated with helpful staff. The internet is amazing, having planned all this from so far and traveling the route care of Google maps, we feel like we have been here already.

Within in 30 minutes we have located an Apple store & purchased the all important Mac Book, now we can find all the shops we need. The majority of our time in SF is planned for shopping, more than we had imagined. Suffice to say we spend a good few dollars kitting ourselves out with all the camping gear we will need during the next 10 weeks.

Obviously we make some time for the touristy things, visiting Fisherman's Wharf for clam chowder, riding the cable cars, eating Mexican food and shopping at Macy's & Saks.



We are impressed by the excellent public transport, the super clean streets and sidewalks (notice the Curb Appeal High Pressure sidewalk washer)and amazed at the amount of Hispanic influence so far N and the massive cars


And then there are the crazy cars................