Downtown San Fran

Sarah Swain set us an e-mail with a number of things to see and do while in SF and wine country. So we drove into town across the Golden Gate, turned on Lombard Street and followed it all the way down. This is the serpentine street you see in movies. The steepest section is one-way, covered in brick pavers and in a residential neighborhood. The speed limit is 5 mph and in a 20' truck that was about as fast as I could go. From there we drove past the Trans-American building in the financial district. Almost as narrow as the canyons of Wall Street. Went around a few corners and through the Gates of Chinatown, where we parked to shop for awhile. We then had lunch at The Empress of China restaurant. It was very good. We loaded up and drove over to Fisherman's Wharf and toured the area. The sea lions that failed to show up at Sea Lion Cave were all here, barking, snorting and smelling like sea lions. By the time we'd walked around there it was approaching rush hour, so we headed back north across the GG. We stopped at the north end and walked out to the first tower. Wind surfers were out on the bay in what felt like a gail wind.
Instead of going straight home, we got on Rt. 1, the old coastal road and headed north. What a windy, steep road that is. We made it up to Point Reyes National Seashore before heading back east to our digs in Novato. It was a great ride.