{"id":1135,"date":"2017-05-13T14:09:14","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T21:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2024-01-13T10:22:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T17:22:29","slug":"travels-with-caroline-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"Travels With Caroline – Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

The drive from Ft. Bragg (Mendocino) was beautiful, and some of the scariest driving I’ve done.\u00a0 Winding, narrow roads, along the cliff with no guard rails in many places, hairpin turns.\u00a0 In several places the road had washed out on the cliff side, and it was down to one lane, temporary traffic lights regulating flow.\u00a0 My palms were sweating for much of the drive.\u00a0 But the vista were amazing, when I could look at them.<\/p>\n

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\"California<\/p>\n

\"California<\/p>\n

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We stopped at the Point Arena lighthouse, a stop well worth the time.\u00a0 The site features a small museum and gift hop and tours of the lighthouse, requiring a climb up 140+ stairs up a circular staircase.\u00a0 The climb was well worth it for the views, and the guides were very informative.\u00a0 https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Point_Arena_Light<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Pa<\/p>\n

\"Port<\/p>\n

\"Califofnia<\/p>\n

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Caroline on top of Point Arena lighthouse.<\/p>\n

\"Caroline<\/p>\n

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Leaving Point Arena, we continued south on the coast highway, slowly I\u00a0 might add.\u00a0 Conditions did not allow for driving much over 25-30 miles per hour for long stretches.\u00a0 We had a very forgettable lunch at the Lucas Wharf in Bodega Bay, then shortly after lunch\u00a0 CA 1, our highway, turned inland and the driving got easier.\u00a0 We then cut over through some very pretty farming and wine country and joined CA 101 and headed into San Francisco.<\/p>\n

In San Francisco, we stayed at the Holiday Inn Fisherman’s Wharf, conveniently located to the tourist attractions of Fisherman’™s Wharf and to the bus stop for the tour bus, Big Bus.\u00a0 We ate dinner at a mediocre Italian restaurant then called it a day.<\/p>\n

Next morning we hit the bricks early, actually the hop-on hop-off Big Bus, and started to see San Francisco. \u00c2\u00a0the first stop was the Ferry Building.\u00c2\u00a0https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco_Ferry_Building<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ferry<\/p>\n

\"Ferry<\/p>\n

\"Inside<\/p>\n

\"Near<\/p>\n

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Caroline outside Ferry Building.\u00a0 Shopping of course.<\/p>\n

\"Caroline<\/p>\n

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The Big Bus was a popular way t get around San Francisco as a tourist.\u00a0 This is the crowd waiting to board two full busses stopped at Union Square.<\/p>\n

\"Line<\/p>\n

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I don’t think this guy was waiting for the bus.<\/p>\n

\"Catching<\/p>\n

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We rode the Big Bus across the Golden Gate Bridge, sitting on the open top of the bus.\u00a0 at 50 or so miles per hour, it was a windy, cold experience, but great views. Here is a view of Alcatraz in the distance as the bus went across the bridge.<\/p>\n

\"Alcatraz<\/p>\n

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Some other views from the bus:<\/p>\n

\"Another<\/p>\n

\"Bay<\/p>\n

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We spent some time in Chinatown of course.<\/p>\n

\"Entrance<\/p>\n

\"Chinatown<\/p>\n

\"Chinatown<\/p>\n

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Caroline loves socks.<\/p>\n

\"Sock<\/p>\n

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A couple of other shops in Chinatown:<\/p>\n

\"Shop<\/p>\n

\"Shop<\/p>\n

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Some other views around the town:<\/p>\n

\"Land\u00c2<\/p>\n

\"Peace\"<\/p>\n

\"Sf<\/p>\n

\"Sf<\/p>\n

\"Sf<\/p>\n

\"Sf<\/p>\n

\"Change<\/p>\n

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We rode the cable car up to the top of Lombard Street, the most windy street in the world, or at least in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

\"View<\/p>\n

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Finally a pencil sketch of a gnarled old tree that caught my attention.<\/p>\n

\"Tree<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, we had to return to reality. \u00c2\u00a0A really great trip with my daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The drive from Ft. Bragg (Mendocino) was beautiful, and some of the scariest driving I’ve done.\u00a0 Winding, narrow roads, along the cliff with no guard rails in many places, hairpin turns.\u00a0 In several places the road had washed out on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.travelswithwesley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}