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CITY RECAP: San Francisco

Highlights: Cycling across the Golden Gate Bridge and having ice-creams over in Sausalito, visiting Alcatraz and surmising about the whereabouts of the three prisoners that escaped – (some believed they died trying to cross the ocean’s strong current, others hopeful that they made it to South America), the City Lights bookstore where Jack Kerouac spent a great deal of his time writing and reading, China town and eating dumplings for lunch for $2,50, seeing the view from Coit Tower, exploring San Fran’s very hilly neighbourhoods after getting off the trolley at the wrong stop, eating dinner in a fairy-lit courtyard at the Foreign Cinema with a movie playing on a huge white-washed wall, eating dinner two nights in a row at Rangoon Super Stars – a Burmese restaurant down the road from our Air BnB in Berkeley, lunch on the pier at Ferry Terminal.

Lowlights: Odd design choices in public transport, being yelled at by a crazy old racist lady.

People: Strangely enough relative to their reputation we found the people of San Francisco aggressive and rude to tourists – will have to revisit SF to see if we can get a difference experience of the people.

Oddities: incredible murals around the city, street names impressed into the concrete of intersections, street evangelists plying their trade with loudhailers.

Jono & Jo’s totally objective and no-way subjective rating scale: 3 escaped prisoners out of 4.

Reminds us of: Cape Town a wee-bit.

Distance travelled: 970 miles

Haikus from San Fran:

JONO:

Jo slips between cars

Quicksilver flashing, darting –

A fish on a bridge!

Under strings of lights

In the dusk you smile at me –

The sun blazes bright!

JO:

On my bicycle

Across the Golden Gate Bridge

Jono ahead: ride!

Sunshine, fairy lights

Ice-cream is melting. Smiling

With a golden heart.