Not an early start for us today as I'm starting to feel my age now with going out all day every day so it was 10am when we left the hotel and headed round the corner to the bus stop, from here if you catch any bus it will take you down to Market Street where you can catch a bus or tram anywhere but while we were here it was time to renew the bus passes as we would get a chance tomorrow and needed to done before Monday. After that it was time for a coffee in the plaza before getting the 14R bus down into The Mission area for the Cinco de Mayo festival which is always held on the closest Saturday to the 5th of May, this is basically a Mexican celebration but has been canceled in a lot of cities due to fact that most of them think they are going to rounded up by Donald Trump's mates and deported, here it was going ahead but a lot less people showed up I think. We spent about an hour and half here then caught the 48 bus 4 stops to Church
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| Mission Delores Park |
Street then got J tram 4 stops to Mission Delores Park, it wasn't that warm today but the park was absolutely packed, it was funny to watch an irate local resident going round shouting at people because somebody had blocked his driveway, the chance of finding the owner were slim to none with this many people about. After sitting there taking in the fresh air for a bit and watching the trams speed down the hill it was time to head along the oldest church in San Francisco but didn't bother going in at $7 each, I'm sure when I checked on the website that it was free. It was only a short walk anyway so nothing lost there. By now we starting get hungry but had a 20 minute wait for the 33 bus to Castro Street. Its not that far to walk but its up hill and some of it is very steep but a coach driver give us a bottle of water when he was getting some out for the passengers on there. The Castro is the main gay area of the city and is always fairly busy, there are some good shops down there like Hot Cookie that do giant hot cookie as the name suggests. By now we were both starting to feel a bit done in so decided to start heading back, the only option from here is the F line which is a bit of a pain in the arse for Jane to get on but
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| Me and the F line tram |
that was the best solution. We ended up only going about 3 stops then got off to have a look a coin mint which looks like a sort of modern fort on top a big rock and there is a Safeway right next door it so went in there. Now the plan was to catch the J line back to the city but when we looked at the real-time app on my phone it was a 27 minute wait then 3 were going to turn up at once, it would seem public transport is the same no matter where you go so ended up getting back on the F line to 3rd street then crossed the road and caught a 30 bus round to Jack in The Box which is a fast food joint but does very tasty chicken sandwiches. By now it was about 6:30 so cut through Union Square back to the hotel. time for a beer and some TV now, missed the baseball that was on as well, we thought it was on at 7pm it must have a 3 pm start in Chicago.
So that was another day over with, so far we haven't managed to complete a full as I had planned but we are getting through most things and the bits that we have missed we should get to add into other days and we still have a week to go yet.
