San Francisco > Columbus

December 13th – 14th
This morning Jeanne and I headed out for a little shopping and site seeing. We stopped for coffee at a cute little French bakery. Oh my – the pastries looked delightful! (and I don’t even like sweets!)

I don’t remember the name of the neighborhood we were in – but there were some quaint shops and I really enjoyed it.













As we drove around, I was again intrigued by the landscape.

Just so different from flat Florida and Ohio.





Since I had arrived, I had yet to see a cable car. Finally, we were behind one!

We ventured over to Treasure Island.

Which is an artificial island in the San Francisco bay created for the 1939-40 World’s Fair. It was intended to then be used as Pan Am airlines hub, however, it was taken over as a naval base.




For the most part it’s just abandoned military buildings. There are some homes – but the island is toxic. So plans to re-develop it into a self sustained city have never happened. (Plutonium, asbestos and radium just to name a few)

Some nice views of the city though!

Next we went back to Filbert Street so I could see it in daylight.

From the bottom looking up                                                       

Houses on Filbert

Look at that angle!

And back to Lombard Street

    

I thought my garage was hard to get into since my drive way is kind of steep.

I would never be able to get in/out of this one – and believe me – this was nothing compared to most!

Almost all of them had an entrance with an extreme slope and at an angle.




We drove around for a while longer and then headed home to meet up with John.
Home Sweet Home

This is their backyard

This is the view from their deck

 

 

That evening, we had a yummy Italian dinner at a little mom & pop place near where they once lived. Very tasty!

Then we headed up to Twin Peaks and the Sutro Tower.





It’s a 977 foot tall tower that transmits all the local tv & radio station’s signals. This was needed prior to cable TV because of all the hills.






We had an excellent view of the city!




Kinda foggy – so the photos didn’t come out too good.





We capped of the evening with some dessert at the Ghirardelli factory. Sinful!

On our drive back home, I got one more shot of the Golden Gate bridge.

Jeanne and I were convinced we saw a fox while driving thru the Presidio one last time – but John claims it was just a really big raccoon.
(ok, he was right)

We hung out back at home for a bit and then I headed to the airport.

By the way – the Delta SkyClub at SFO – what a waste! What good is a club outside of security? Ugh!

But I got my first class upgrade for the ride home – which was HUGE since I was taking a red eye home.

Slept most of the way. Got back to Columbus around 9am.