For The Love of Travel

Well its official….I’ve given my heart to San Francisco! Sooo lucky this morning – I checked my sunrise/sunset app called “Sky Candy” and it registered 60% possibility of a gorgeous sunrise. WELL! Check this out…..I discovered that if I was at Marin Headlands, over the GG Bridge, I would get a ‘silhouette’ of the bridge against this gorgeous colour. Guess where I am going tomorrow???

Then off on a bus tour all morning to check out the spots I want to return to over the next few days. Two hours of bus gave you a pretty comprehensive overview and lovely images…..all the districts in the city, including ‘Nob Hill’ and ‘Tenderloin’, juxtaposed and depressing really because just a few streets separates and contrasts those with A LOT, with the homeless. A City Hall wedding; a pair of sexy fish-net stockinged legs dangling out of a window of Piedmont Boutique in the Haight Ashbury neighbourhood; City mosaic murals; Van Ness trolley car ready for its next trip….

Did I mention I’ve given my heart to San Francisco? WELL! Check out these views, people, from Twin Views and Hawk Hill in the mid afternoon…..a perfect day!

Arrived in San Francisco 3pm, dropped stuff off at hotel and went to witness how Californians celebrate Halloween…in Richmond Hill, where I heard families ‘get out on the street’. And they did!  Walked up and down Lake St between 15th and 25th Streets  taking pics. 

Where Pacific waves meet the setting sun, Richmond district stretches 50 blocks west from the vast green spaces of the Presidio and gorgeous Golden Gate Park. The houses/estates are huge and its, rich, rich, rich here! I saw the Japanese garden and de Young Museum on the drive through and decided I have to go back!

Green Apple Books on the Park (close to the Botanical Gardens), had a dog dress up competition for Halloween (of course!)….such a cute range of entries, but owners hadn’t thought through nor prepared for, their dog’s reaction to others and there were a few ‘scrapes’.  The mutts I pictured though were really well behaved…..’Reilly’ (left), ‘Bettany’ (with owner), and ‘Magic’.