Classic Trip - San Francisco, California 1998, Purpose 1
We're going to go through fourth dimension here, starting inwards 1998 together with bringing yous correct upwards to 2010 amongst a serial of reports from the San Francisco area. Today, nosotros acquire into the Wayback Machine for our commencement trip on a bird amongst Tim's ability chair. Remember the fourth dimension frame when yous run into prices together with line of piece of employment organisation names...both powerfulness guide maintain disappeared since then. The WWW was inwards its infancy, digital cameras had yet to survive invented (so the pictures below were scanned), and Tim was 10 years old. We're off to the City yesteryear The Bay...
Buena Vista for an Irish Gaelic coffee, but it was simply besides crowded to acquire in. After a stroll through the shops at Ghiradelli Square, nosotros wandered dorsum to the motel where nosotros had notwithstanding yet to run into our room (we had simply dropped off the bags earlier).
Lodging was at the Travelodge yesteryear the Bay together with our room amongst ii queen sized beds was nicely adequate together with simply roomy enough. We had gotten the room through Central Reservations (800-677-1500) for an unbelievable cost of $59 summation tax. That's dirt inexpensive inwards SF! I was glad nosotros did because the forepart desk was quoting arriving guests a cost of $95 for singles.
The motel was centrally located on Lombard Street, simply off the corner of Van Ness, inwards the Marina District. It tin survive noisy, thankfully nosotros had tranquility neighbors. You tin postulate heed everybody else's TV around you. There was also a really brilliant lite simply exterior our door that streamed into our room. We did acquire a skillful nighttime slumber together with charge per unit of measurement this motel well. We've had much worse hither before. TL yesteryear the Bay gets a thumbs upwards this time, but nosotros would similar to guide maintain had a switch for the %#!$ light!
For dinner nosotros headed downwards Chestnut Street (one block northward of Lombard). The line of piece of employment organisation district is almost a 1/2 mile walk from our motel.
Tim allow us know inwards no uncertain terms that he wouldn't consume whatever Chinese nutrient on this trip except for rice (as he’s grown up, thence has his tastes. Tim is no longer adverse to Chinese or simply almost whatever other ethnic nutrient – Ed). To croak along the peace, spell nosotros had hoped to acquire some of the city's peachy Chinese nutrient this trip, nosotros went looking for something else. We ended upwards at ane of Village Pizzeria's branches on Steiner at Chestnut. Village Pizza is our favorite pizza inwards San Francisco thence nosotros knew we'd similar that.
Village Pizza didn't disappoint. Letty had a really skillful baked rigatoni dish spell Tim together with I had a delicious pepperoni pizza. One affair they produce hither that is neat is they plow over the kids some raw pizza dough to play amongst to top fourth dimension until the nutrient arrives similar play-dough. Tim had a lot of fun trying to mold his into equally many shapes equally he could.
We were able to brand modest speak amongst another diners together with the staff hither who were all really friendly. About halfway through dinner, the street exterior became total of bicycles. Not simply a few, but thousands!
For a skillful twenty minutes, masses of bike riders filled the street, shouting together with laughing equally they rode by, followed yesteryear a SFPD escort. We flora out that this is Critical Mass, a demonstration conducted yesteryear bay surface area riders on the terminal Fri of each calendar month to promote bike riding equally an option agency of commuting.
They start at the ferry edifice at the halt of Market Street together with ride to the Golden Gate Bridge filling the streets equally they go. Later on the word nosotros learned that many drivers loathe this (although the bikes guide maintain equally much correct to purpose the route equally the cars - but they should also obey the laws together with non acquire inwards the way unecessarily) together with that's why the SFPD provides escort for safety. We didn't run into whatever intend drivers inwards our surface area though.
With a liter of Cabernet to launder downwards our dinner, nosotros had a peachy fourth dimension hither together with decided to telephone phone it a night. Village Pizza gets a big thumbs up.
SATURDAY
Day Two of our trip started amongst breakfast. Cafe Caravan, ane block northward of our motel at Chestnut together with Van Ness, provided the start for our day. Breakfast was skillful inwards this really modest hole inwards the wall. I had sausage together with eggs, Letty had an omelet, together with Tim had some pancakes. The java was delicious, together with everything on our plates was delicious. Cafe Caravan gets a thumbs up.
CABLE CAR BARN
We had a morn to kill before our boat to Alcatraz left (at 12:45pm) thence nosotros decided to pass it yesteryear going over to the Cable Car Barn on Washington Street. This is ane surface area of the urban kernel that is non existent good served yesteryear accessible transportation...everyone else tin acquire at that topographic point via cable car...so nosotros ended upwards walking here, almost 1 1/2 miles. It didn't await bad on the map but that doesn't demo all the hills there.
After getting a skillful dose of exercise, nosotros made it to the barn. This is where the mechanism that runs the entire cable machine organisation is located. You tin picket the cables acquire through their diverse pulleys together with wheels on the way to their journeying underneath the streets. The cable cars operated yesteryear clamping onto these cables together with existence pulled along their routes.
The displays hither are interesting equally are some of the onetime historic cars located here. Any museum that tin fit a kid's interest, equally this ane does, gets a thumbs upwards from us. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 big thumbs downwards though to Muni for non providing adequate shipping to its ain museum. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 skillful gift store sells some peachy souvenirs here.
After awhile here, it was fourth dimension to start heading over to pier 41 to grab our boat to Alcatraz. We walked over to Columbus together with Jackson (about vi blocks from the Cable Car Barn) to grab Muni's #15 omnibus to Fisherman's Wharf. In between, nosotros waded through the really crowded bustle of Chinatown where some kind of protestation was going on. We never flora out what it was almost (all the signs together with pamphlets were inwards Chinese).
We made it to Fisherman's Wharf at 11:30am, which gave us plenty fourth dimension to purchase a dejeuner to guide maintain amongst us. Tim was having fast-food withdrawal pains thence he had an early on dejeuner of a cheeseburger together with fries at the Burger King located inwards the mall at 350 Bay Street. In that mall at that topographic point was also a Safeway amongst a deli where Letty together with I picked upwards a duo of hoagies to go.
Stay tuned for Part ii where nosotros halt upwards on "The Rock"...
-Darryl
Copyright 1998 - Darryl Musick
Lodging was at the Travelodge yesteryear the Bay together with our room amongst ii queen sized beds was nicely adequate together with simply roomy enough. We had gotten the room through Central Reservations (800-677-1500) for an unbelievable cost of $59 summation tax. That's dirt inexpensive inwards SF! I was glad nosotros did because the forepart desk was quoting arriving guests a cost of $95 for singles.
The motel was centrally located on Lombard Street, simply off the corner of Van Ness, inwards the Marina District. It tin survive noisy, thankfully nosotros had tranquility neighbors. You tin postulate heed everybody else's TV around you. There was also a really brilliant lite simply exterior our door that streamed into our room. We did acquire a skillful nighttime slumber together with charge per unit of measurement this motel well. We've had much worse hither before. TL yesteryear the Bay gets a thumbs upwards this time, but nosotros would similar to guide maintain had a switch for the %#!$ light!
For dinner nosotros headed downwards Chestnut Street (one block northward of Lombard). The line of piece of employment organisation district is almost a 1/2 mile walk from our motel.
Tim allow us know inwards no uncertain terms that he wouldn't consume whatever Chinese nutrient on this trip except for rice (as he’s grown up, thence has his tastes. Tim is no longer adverse to Chinese or simply almost whatever other ethnic nutrient – Ed). To croak along the peace, spell nosotros had hoped to acquire some of the city's peachy Chinese nutrient this trip, nosotros went looking for something else. We ended upwards at ane of Village Pizzeria's branches on Steiner at Chestnut. Village Pizza is our favorite pizza inwards San Francisco thence nosotros knew we'd similar that.
Village Pizza didn't disappoint. Letty had a really skillful baked rigatoni dish spell Tim together with I had a delicious pepperoni pizza. One affair they produce hither that is neat is they plow over the kids some raw pizza dough to play amongst to top fourth dimension until the nutrient arrives similar play-dough. Tim had a lot of fun trying to mold his into equally many shapes equally he could.
We were able to brand modest speak amongst another diners together with the staff hither who were all really friendly. About halfway through dinner, the street exterior became total of bicycles. Not simply a few, but thousands!
For a skillful twenty minutes, masses of bike riders filled the street, shouting together with laughing equally they rode by, followed yesteryear a SFPD escort. We flora out that this is Critical Mass, a demonstration conducted yesteryear bay surface area riders on the terminal Fri of each calendar month to promote bike riding equally an option agency of commuting.
They start at the ferry edifice at the halt of Market Street together with ride to the Golden Gate Bridge filling the streets equally they go. Later on the word nosotros learned that many drivers loathe this (although the bikes guide maintain equally much correct to purpose the route equally the cars - but they should also obey the laws together with non acquire inwards the way unecessarily) together with that's why the SFPD provides escort for safety. We didn't run into whatever intend drivers inwards our surface area though.
With a liter of Cabernet to launder downwards our dinner, nosotros had a peachy fourth dimension hither together with decided to telephone phone it a night. Village Pizza gets a big thumbs up.
SATURDAY
Day Two of our trip started amongst breakfast. Cafe Caravan, ane block northward of our motel at Chestnut together with Van Ness, provided the start for our day. Breakfast was skillful inwards this really modest hole inwards the wall. I had sausage together with eggs, Letty had an omelet, together with Tim had some pancakes. The java was delicious, together with everything on our plates was delicious. Cafe Caravan gets a thumbs up.
CABLE CAR BARN
We had a morn to kill before our boat to Alcatraz left (at 12:45pm) thence nosotros decided to pass it yesteryear going over to the Cable Car Barn on Washington Street. This is ane surface area of the urban kernel that is non existent good served yesteryear accessible transportation...everyone else tin acquire at that topographic point via cable car...so nosotros ended upwards walking here, almost 1 1/2 miles. It didn't await bad on the map but that doesn't demo all the hills there.
After getting a skillful dose of exercise, nosotros made it to the barn. This is where the mechanism that runs the entire cable machine organisation is located. You tin picket the cables acquire through their diverse pulleys together with wheels on the way to their journeying underneath the streets. The cable cars operated yesteryear clamping onto these cables together with existence pulled along their routes.
The displays hither are interesting equally are some of the onetime historic cars located here. Any museum that tin fit a kid's interest, equally this ane does, gets a thumbs upwards from us. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 big thumbs downwards though to Muni for non providing adequate shipping to its ain museum. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 skillful gift store sells some peachy souvenirs here.
After awhile here, it was fourth dimension to start heading over to pier 41 to grab our boat to Alcatraz. We walked over to Columbus together with Jackson (about vi blocks from the Cable Car Barn) to grab Muni's #15 omnibus to Fisherman's Wharf. In between, nosotros waded through the really crowded bustle of Chinatown where some kind of protestation was going on. We never flora out what it was almost (all the signs together with pamphlets were inwards Chinese).
We made it to Fisherman's Wharf at 11:30am, which gave us plenty fourth dimension to purchase a dejeuner to guide maintain amongst us. Tim was having fast-food withdrawal pains thence he had an early on dejeuner of a cheeseburger together with fries at the Burger King located inwards the mall at 350 Bay Street. In that mall at that topographic point was also a Safeway amongst a deli where Letty together with I picked upwards a duo of hoagies to go.
Stay tuned for Part ii where nosotros halt upwards on "The Rock"...
-Darryl
Copyright 1998 - Darryl Musick
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