November 3, 2010Up before the Roosters...and on our way to the Pittsburg, CA to ride "BART" The train into San Francisco. We were told that, although we were only 20 minutes from BART it could possibly take an hour or more because of a 3 miles corridor just before the station that slows to a crawl. Kind of like Chesterfield Parkway to Mason Street in St Louis County. Well...we just zipped from the RV park to the far side of Antioch in about 12 minutes...and then we hit the lights...You know, the red ones on the back side of cars.
The last 4-1/2 miles took 45 minutes. What we weren't told before we left the RV park was that Nov. 3 was the World Series victory parade for the SF Giants. But we were there to take a tour...missed the parade...but felt the effects of the extra folks in town.
Our tour started down by Fisherman's Wharf (Beach and Powell) just a block from the trolley station.
Our first stop was the Golden Gate bridge, which had been captured on the first pic from the park in front of the trolley station.
We stopped at the park on the other side of the bridge...And, although we didn't find the opportunity to get a pic with our feet in the Pacific again...we did get a pic of us walking on the Golden Gate Bridge.
The views from Lincoln park were stellar.
They were shooting a movie on the
beach. 
The Golden Gate park was beautiful. 3-1/2 miles long, half mile wide. It is "boasted" to be larger than Central park...but a little bit of reseach shows that it's 1071 acres fall short of the size of Forest Park which has 1293 acres.
Their Botanical gardens, Japanese tea garden, and science center were all located in the Golden Gate Park. The science center is a "green" building...(far side of central park area) and had a grass roof. (But no goats as we saw in Door County.)
Our next stop at Twin Peaks allowed a view of the entire SF and Oakland areas. We might mention at this point that some of our tour was "improvised" because we couldn't get near Union Station or the Civic park because of the Giants Celebration and parade.
After the tour we went to Fisherman's Wharf - starting at Pier 39 where the sealions hang out.
This old "grandpa" was on a section of dock all by himself...scratching his back.
From the end of Pier 39 caught the most perfect picture of Alcatraz, which was closed down in 1963...transferred to the American Indians for a few years...taken back, and opened for public viewing in 1976.
We took the Trolley "up the Hill" to the Powell station to catch BART for the ride home. "Up the hill" ended up being...up the hill...down the hill...up the hill...down the hill...up the hill...down the hill like a roller coaster. There are 47 major hills in San Francisco
We met a neat gal in line as we waited to catch the trolley...(DEA agent)...had great conversations...and she helped us through the confusion of transferring from the Trolley to Bart. (Usually not confusing...but we were still dealing with the "extra million" who came to town for the Giants parade and celebration.)
Their Botanical gardens, Japanese tea garden, and science center were all located in the Golden Gate Park. The science center is a "green" building...(far side of central park area) and had a grass roof. (But no goats as we saw in Door County.)
Our next stop at Twin Peaks allowed a view of the entire SF and Oakland areas. We might mention at this point that some of our tour was "improvised" because we couldn't get near Union Station or the Civic park because of the Giants Celebration and parade.
After the tour we went to Fisherman's Wharf - starting at Pier 39 where the sealions hang out.
This old "grandpa" was on a section of dock all by himself...scratching his back.
From the end of Pier 39 caught the most perfect picture of Alcatraz, which was closed down in 1963...transferred to the American Indians for a few years...taken back, and opened for public viewing in 1976.
We took the Trolley "up the Hill" to the Powell station to catch BART for the ride home. "Up the hill" ended up being...up the hill...down the hill...up the hill...down the hill...up the hill...down the hill like a roller coaster. There are 47 major hills in San Francisco
We met a neat gal in line as we waited to catch the trolley...(DEA agent)...had great conversations...and she helped us through the confusion of transferring from the Trolley to Bart. (Usually not confusing...but we were still dealing with the "extra million" who came to town for the Giants parade and celebration.)
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