Photograph 1 - The San Francisco southern suburb of Linda Mar (in Pacifica). The San Andreas fault line follows this mountain range. If it shakes this place will rock & roll.
Photograph 2 - Our hotel is the Best Western Lighthouse Pacifica. It really is an observation deck.
Photograph 3 - The going down of the sun - over the North Pacific Ocean. Taken at Pacifica, San Francisco.
Nothing spectacular happened today. It was a sleep-in this
morning and about 10:30pm we drive to Daly City (we think the name of this city
has to do with the American golfer John Daly). Anne spent some of her Macy
money given on her birthday and in the afternoon spent some time back in
Pacifica doing administration work and domestic activities (washing our clothes
etc). So it was a really good rest day. Tomorrow we have to leave early and get
out of San Francisco (we are staying south of the city and to head for LA we
don't need to go through San Francisco). Heading south we are going to follow
the famous Big Sur which will put on a few more hours to our journey. The Big
Sur is the coastline drive where the road actually hugs close to cliffs and the
rugged Pacific coast. We are looking forward to that leg of the journey. What
we are not looking forward to is the drive into Los Angeles. We heard it's a
crazy world down there traffic wise. Neil is used to left hand drive
vehicles and semi-experience in freeway driving as long as our Charlotte (GPS)
is on track. On a final note regarding San Francisco it is a fantastic city. We
needed at least a full week here. They say the three most three beautiful
cities in the world (for scenery) are Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco and
naturally Sydney. San Francisco is unusually cold in summer because of the
Pacific Ocean and the bay on two other sides. Mark Twain once stated "The
coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco" - so true we
are wearing coats!! Apparently only 20 klms away is a 35 to 40 deg C heat wave.
Cheers.
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