Day 9: El Capitain to San Francisco
miles traveled: 374
Even though we don't have our hush puppies on and were never meant for glitter rock and roll, we made it up to the beautiful city of San Francisco today. Before we left our campsite, Jenn gave the tennis ball I had found in the woods the other day to a couple of dogs that these people were walking. Another lady was walking around and spotted our campsite and complimented us on the fact that it was a pretty baller site. We told her that she could take it since we were heading up north and wouldn't need it again tonight. She thanked us profusely for it and we informed her that we had left some extra firewood for her as well. We encountered our first tunnel on the trip, but it was a pansy short tunnel, so holding our breath was not a problem. While driving along 101 and 1, we saw the people harvesting the strawberry fields, multiple hawks, and a bunch of vineyards. We stopped around 2:30 for gas and lunch, which consisted of summer sausage and triscuits. We traveled through Silicon Valley on our way to San Francisco, which was cool to see. When we got to San Fran, we drove through China Town on our way to the Fisherman's Wharf. We got out and walked along the water front, bought postcards, looked at shop vendors, and Turtle and I went to Boudin and bought two loaves of sourdough. Turtle also bought a sourdough turtle, which was pretty cool. We took pictures of Ghiradelli square and the boats in the harbor. Jenn, Sarah, and I got one glass of wine at a wine tasting store. When we asked the guy where a good place to go in Napa for dry red wine. He gave us a business card and wrote on the back of it for a free tasting, which was super awesome. We got back into the car and headed over towards Lombard St, drove down that, and went to Coit Tower. At the top, we made friends with a guy from Greece, who took our picture. Jenn and I impressed him because we knew the word "thithima" which means twin. I have no idea if I spelled that right, but that is how it is pronounced. We left San Francisco and headed down to Half Moon Bay campground. We walked on the beach which actually had sand!! Jenn, Turtle, and I were walking around and talking on the phone to our people back home while Sarah stayed back up at the campsite. I found another sea lion and tried to take pictures of it, but he was being sneaky and didn't like getting his photo taken. I went back up to the campsite, and Sarah and I headed out of the campground to scavenge for free fire wood. We ended up being sketch at the back of a neighborhood and the edge of a field, but we got enough wood to have a decent fire. Since we couldn't break the logs down because we didn't have leverage, we folded down the seats in Sylvia and brought back 6 ft logs to the campsite. Turtle ninja'd them into smaller pieces and one of them we just burned in the middle. We sat around the fire and chilled before heading to bed.
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