Today started with a hearty breakfast in Carl Jr's and you certainly get plenty for your money. Sausage grilled cheese sandwich on sourdough bread with mini hash browns and a coffee to wash it all down with. Then we headed into the hole in the ground where the visitor information center is to buy the Muni 7 day bus travel passes. At $42 there reasonable value given that it gives you unlimited travel on all buses, trams, streetcars and cable cars instead of paying $2.50 a ride. If you make more than 2 and a half rides a day you are saving. From there we dodged the beggars and crazy people who talk to themselves along Market Street and caught the 8BX down to Pier 39 to see the sea lions. By now the temperature was about 25 but with a real feel of about 30c if you were in the sun and no breeze on you. Something we were looking for was a laser engraved crystal that you don't see anywhere else and luckily they still do them in a shop there and are really nice for 10 bucks. They do a stands that light them the crystal up but they where crap for $6.50 so didn't bother with that. Now it was time for Beer 39 on Pier 39, yes it is called Beer 39, we were the only 2 in there but it was only 11am. So after a drink, it was a bit more perusing of the shops then got on the F Line Streetcar to Levi Plaza what a fantastic place
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| Cooling the feet |
this is and where the head office is for Levi jeans is, given that the temperature was so hot by now Jane decided to dip her feet in the fountain to cool them off. From there we took a short walk to the bottom of Filbert Street Steps but there no way I was climbing 375 of them to the top and headed off through Sidney G Walton Park to a Safeway in the vain hope of getting some sun block cream but to no avail. By now we were starting to cook so dropped into a pub called
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| Me at the pub |
Grumpy's bar for a couple of drinks, they sell Lagunitas here so had a couple of them but that's all or I struggle to walk at 6.2 percent per large pint & price wise it wasn't too bad at $8 for a beer and a lemonade. From there we headed down to the underground train to AT&T park then walked along the Bay then headed into Safeway to get some shopping. After what we had for breakfast and snacked on through the day we didn't fancy eating much tonight. Back at the hotel now after a quick visit to the beer shop and we had asked the hotel to clear out the mini bar so we now have a fridge to put (our) beers in. With that, it's now 8pm and my legs hurt plus my arms are a bit on the burnt side. The only problem we had today was the wheelchair cracked a front wheel so that's screwed things up a bit but there are places that rent them near us or maybe they can make a repair but whatever happens I can replan for less walking (wheeling) on the next few days.
