This is the story of our 85-day trip around the world going westward. We started our trip on September 28, 2022, and arrived home on December 21, 2022, in time for Christmas – 20 plane legs later. I hope you’ll join us on this journey, and you can join us on our adventures by going…
Tag: California
Day 24 – Farewell San Francisco and the Mission District
The only thing we hadn’t done that was still on Louise‘s list was visiting the mission district. Packed and ready to check out our hotel, we still had three hours to spend in San Francisco before picking up our taxi to the airport. Mission District is relatively spread out. I found the Women’s Building we…
Day 23 – The Great Sausalito
The Pretty Town of Sausalito Today we took the ferry across to Sausalito. It is rather quaint and another place for the tourist to visit. We took a bus from the central town to see the floating homes. This is something like the batches in New Zealand, except it’s far more extensive, and they called…
Day 22 – Walking in San Francisco
Today was mainly walking in San Francisco, which was unusually hot for San Francisco. More like the weather we expect on our next stop – Hawaii. We went down to the harbour front and then back to Chinatown. I convinced Louise that she needed another massage so I could have one too. We returned to…
Day 20 – Golden Gate Park and Botanical Gardens
A beautiful day and what better way to enjoy the day than spend most of it at Golden Gate Park. We reserved some electric bikes, but first, we stopped for a lovely coffee at Haight Ashbury, which leads into the park. The bike place promised to have the bikes ready for us, but they didn’t…
Day 18 – San Francisco Iconic Districts
Today we visited a few iconic districts of San Francisco. First is the Alamo Square in the view of the painted ladies. These six houses were built in the late 1800s and made a fantastic picture of downtown. It’s one of those iconic views in many photos of San Francisco. Second, we were off to…
Day 17 – San Francisco’s Chinatown
Today it’s Chinatown Louise‘s sciatica is acting up, and she’s in much pain while walking. So we decided to see if we could get her a Physio appointment which is ridiculously expensive and difficult to find. But we’re in Chinatown! We checked a couple of places, but they were all acupuncture, and then we found…
Day 16 – The Majestic Hotel Majestic
The Hotel Majestic had informed me that their elevator* had broken a few days before. They said they would do everything to ensure that staff moved our suitcases up and down. They gave us the option to cancel with no charge, but it was such a late date, it would’ve been impossible to find such…
Day 15 – Travel Day to San Francisco
Today is a travel day from Phoenix to San Francisco. We are still using our masks in all public transport and crowded areas. The last thing we want is to catch Covid somewhere in the middle of our journeys. People waste almost an entire day on vacation, study reveals That statistic is based on a…