Breakfast today was from Posh Bagel round the corner, you can't beat a good sausage and egg hot bagel that's freshly baked even though they are a bit on the pricey side at $6 each but it was nice and we were stuffed afterwards. We didn't head out until just after 9 this morning and the first thing we needed to do was to see if we could get the wheelchair fixed so headed to SOMA where's there's a shop that can fix stuff. As luck would have it they have spare front wheels so we will drop it in tomorrow morning and hope they will have one that's the right size, they have a box of old second-hand ones so it will only be about $20 to fix it.
Today is another scorcher so we headed back to the bus stop and caught the #6 to down to Ashbury & Haight which is the hippy part of town and where the summer of started 50 years ago in the spring of '67. There's some fairly whacky shops down this part of town from legs sticking out of the wall to stuffed racoons with saws. The further along you get the stranger the people become as well until you reach Macdonald's at the end of the road which seems to have a homeless encampment outside it. We dropped inside for a coffee and you know it's not a good neighbourhood when the security guard inside is carrying a gun.
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Pedimount Boutique
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From there we headed across the road into Whole Foods to get a bottle of water to take with us into Golden Gate Park where the Conservatory of Flowers is which is free on the first Tuesday of the month, we have been in here before and really enjoyed it plus now they have butterfly's in there zooming around. We only spent about 30 minutes or so in the conservatory because the humidity was so high in there everything stuck to you but the butterflies were nice to see flapping about. Now we had a bit of a long walk to the De Young Museum which is an art museum, not our sort of thing but today it's free
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| De Young observation tower |
and the only thing wanted to do was go up the observation tower which gives you really good views across most of the city and Golden Gate Park, add in super fast free Wi-Fi and we are onto a winner. So now we were on planning to go to Strawberry Hill and Stow Lake but Jane's leg was starting to hurt so decided to give it a miss and call it a day at 4pm plus we had planned on heading down to Ocean Beach to get something to eat from TJ Café. The bus from
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| View from the tower |
the park runs on a one-way system where we got on but as always it's not going in the direction you want so got on for a couple of stops until it came out of the one-way system then crossed the road and caught going the other way, this saved us having to walk any further than need be. Once off that bus we got 5R down to Ocean Beach but unfortunately, TJ Café doesn't open on a Tuesday, I should have checked while I had an internet connection, never mind as there is a Safeway next door to so went in there and got a roast chicken to take back to the hotel. We didn't get everything done today that we had planned but hopefully the wheelchair will be fixed tomorrow. Most of the days that I have planned cross over each other anyway just in case something happened and we had to miss out something. So now it's back to the hotel and feed on some chicken, drink some beer and eat my Cheetos. After a couple of hours sit down I thought I'd go out & take some night time photos.
I'm still trying to get my head around that a Milky Way is a Mars Bar & not get run over crossing the road.
