My next stop was in San Francisco
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| Foggy View from Twin Peaks |
... where I stayed
again at the marvelous Ocean Park Motel – an Art Deco marvel.
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| Ocean Park Motel |
My friend Erica very kindly took me around. Up, up up, we went
and then, with a stomach dropping “oomph” it was down the hills again – such
fun.
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| Up and down hills |
Every time I go to SF I am fascinated by the Presidio area and we spent
part of our time going round it again.
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| Erica & 1673 Spanish cannon at the Presidio |
We drove around Lincoln Boulevard,
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| Golden Gate Bridge from Lincoln Boulevard |
... visited the Legion of Honour Museum,
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| Legion of Honour Museum |
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| The Thinker |
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| Blown Glass exhibit |
... de Young Museum and
Dead Sea Scrolls & Qumran exhibit, which was quite fascinating!
We had a nice drive out to Fort
Baker (another view of the Golden Gate Bridge)
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| Golden Gate from Fort Baker |
and Historic Ark Row in Tiburon
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| Tiberon - Ark Row |
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| 1862 Building on Ark Row |
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| Victorian Cottage on Ark Row |
We had a delicious lunch in Tiberon on the quay between marauding seagulls. A poor
little kid sitting next to us was shocked and amazed (as were we) when the
seagull made a brief dive and grabbed his fish.
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| Driving across the Golden Gate Bridge |
In driving around Golden Gate
Park, I finally got to see Lindley Meadows. Would like to figure out who THAT
Lindley was <g>
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| Conservatory of Flowers at Lindley Meadow |
I loved to see Twin Peaks
on such a lovely sunny day. It always makes me want to start singing "I
left my heart ..... in SF".
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| Winding round and round - view from Twin Peaks |
On our drives we saw so many interesting homes
and houses. I could spend a year just looking at them street by street.
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| Colourfully designed and painted house |
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| Close-up of design |
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| Close up of design |
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| Gate design |
One of
the houses we saw along lower Ocean
Highway was an "Earthquake" house – set
up for residents after the 1906 Quake. I had no idea they existed – and now I
do.
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| Earthquake house |
The next day, before I left, I visited a park (Mussel Rock Park) which is the area best known for being the closest point to the epicenter of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and where the San Andreas Fault enters the San Francisco Peninsula from the northwest.
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| San Andreas Fault at Mussel Rock Park |
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| San Andreas Fault at Mussel Rock Park |
The area above consists of steep cliffs with frequent landslides, threatening homes in a subdivision above. It made me a bit nervous and gave me the shudders. I was rather happy to leave the area.
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| Yellow Bush Lupin |
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