December 31, 2006

Day 77

I have many photos in today's post because it's maybe the last post of the year. I'm not sure if I can find time to write a post tomorrow evening...
It was an exiting day again. After a nice breakfast in an Italian cafe we went to Fishermen's Wharf to rent a bicycle. Our plan was to ride across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito and the return by a ferry.
By the way, parking is interesting in San Francisco. Because many streets are not level you have to turn the front wheels against the curb to prevent the car from accidently rolling downhill. The car on the photo is parked upwards.
Then I came across this interesting sign. I don't know what it means!?
And then, of course, we saw the news of the day everywhere.
After renting a bicycle and riding along the Marina we reached THE bridge. It was as exciting as always :-)
I'm not sure how tall the pylons are above road level, but I guess at least 200 meters. For me it's hard to look up along them, it's a strange feeling.
Just as we took some pictures on the bridge a container ship passed beneath. The crew waived to us...

This picture gives an impression how high the bridge is.
Right after crossing the brigde we entered Sausalito. It's a small town with come beautiful houses and many tourists like us :-) Since the town is spread over the steep side of the hill the houses have probably an amazing view over the Bay. I heard that many celebrities live here like the actor Robin Williams (not sure if it's true).
Because cycling makes hungry we looked out for a lunch. And we found the best burger restaurant I know so far. A real fresh made and flame-grilled burger...delicious!!

Because of the hillside Sausalito was already in the shadow in the early afternoon.
Then we came across this piece of art which used to be a car.
On top of it there was an uncountable number of small figures, very cute.
Sausalito is known for it's houseboats, but we only saw a few of them.


When we took the ferry back to San Francisco the sun was about to set. Alltogether it was a great day in California again.