No cycling today, tomorrow, next week or next month!
We have celebrated 4th of July in San Francisco on the harbour near Golden Gate Bridge. We started the day by doing a serious amount of laundry and also throwing away some of the rather smelly stuff that is no longer fit for wearing in public.
We have celebrated 4th of July in San Francisco on the harbour near Golden Gate Bridge. We started the day by doing a serious amount of laundry and also throwing away some of the rather smelly stuff that is no longer fit for wearing in public.
Celebrating in our new clothes with Jeff
After lunch we headed to REI, an outdoor shop in SOMA. Our route took us through "the hood" and "Sleazy" 6th Street, it took sightseeing to a new depth or new low. It was pretty grim. Clearly there is a big homelessness and drug problem in this city. In the end we took a taxi the last few blocks to REI. What a great shop REI is, outdoor heaven and it had a sale on! We kitted ourselves with lots of new gear, including running shoes, a new bag and a rucksack.
Today we bought Lonely Planet guides for Fiji and New Zealand as we need to start planning the next stages of our trip.
In the evening we met with Jeff, our new cycling buddy, for dinner. We enjoyed a pleasant meal at a seafood restaurant by the harbour and watched the spectacular fireworks from our table. It seemed like a very fitting end to our cycling trip. Jeff was also finishing his tour of the Pacific coast, so we had a double celebration. It was very generous of the kind people of San Francisco to put on such a fantastic firework display just for the completion of our trip. We have since learnt that they were actually celebrating good riddance of the Brits :)
Fireworks over San Francisco harbour
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