San Francisco Part 1

Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin Headlands



Golden Gate Bridge from the Golden Gate Bridge



A San Franciso cable car in San Franciso. Imagine that!X


Date: Saturday, June 19th
Day: 36
RV Miles: 3,894
Location: Petaluma, CA
Elevation: 71 ft

Oh brother has a lot happened.

We are now in the land of fruits and nuts – just North of San Francisco and just West of the California wine country. The weather here is unbelievably nice. Sunny skies and a daily high of perhaps 75 degrees with no wind. After what we have seen in the desert, this is like heaven.

So far we have taken a driving trip of San Francisco and spent two days doing wine tasting. Larry was posted in San Francisco when he was in the Navy so he didn’t have too much trouble showing us around. He did get upset a few times when they apparently changed the downtown traffic patterns or something over the past 40 years without telling him. He took us to the Marin Headlands to get a good view of the Golden Gate Bridge and then downtown through the Presidio right on to Lombard Street to the “crookedest street in the U.S.” We followed the path of the cable cars down to Fisherman’s Warf and then swung over to Golden Gate Park. Larry called this a scouting expedition and he was right. Now Marsha wants to go back and “do” Fisherman’s Warf. Larry told me this might get expensive.

The next day, Larry and Marsha flipped a coin to see who was going to be the designated driver for the wine tasting trip and Marsha won. Sasha and I waited in the back seat of the car while they went in and tasted wine. We did three wineries: Chateau St. Jean, Kenwood and Benzinger. The next day (Saturday the 19th), Larry drove and Marsha got tipsy tasting wine. We only got to see two wineries Korbel and Kazanski. (Polish winemakers? Never heard of such a thing.) Larry felt that Chateau St Jean had the best wine and Kenwood was the worst with all the others in the middle.

Today, Sunday we are going to drive up the cost to see if we can find a redwood grove and perhaps let Marsha dip her toe in the Pacific. Monday will be something else. . . .

Yesterday, Larry and Marsha took us to a snooty Doggie Day Care Resort and Spa to be evaluated to make sure Sasha and I were good enough to be considered customers. They even put us in a room with about 40 other of their “approved” customers to see if they approved of us as well. Well, as it turns out Sasha and I passed muster with the owners and the other customers. This is all in preparation for Monday. On Monday, Marsha is going to “do” Fisherman’s Warf while Larry tags along. Sasha and I are going to spend the day at the Doggie Day Care Resort and Spa. La di da! Or as Sasha would say, "Woofity, Yipp, Rrrufff-y." Only in California !!!!!