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  • Patrick WilhelmWeltreise
    Day13

    San Francisco 1. Eindruck

     September 30, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    Angekommen, Auto abgegeben und erstmal echt erschrocken, im Bereich Downtown ähnlich wie in LA reich und arm ziemlich nah beieinander. Zelte mitten auf dem Gehweg aufgeschlagen, sodass man teilweise auf der Straße laufen muss.

    Fahrradfahren ist hier nicht zu empfehlen. Zum einen wegen den Bergen mitten in der Stadt. Zum anderen wegen dem Verkehr und den Verkehrsregeln. 4 spurige Einbahnstraßen in der Innenstadt. Kein rechts vor links, sondern wer zuerst an die Kreuzung kommt fährt zuerst :D

    Straßen sind hier so steil, dass sogar die Busse an Kabeln befestigt sind zur Unterstützung 😃

    Ansonsten das Pier erkundet und schonmal nen Blick auf Alcatraz geworfen.    Read more

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  • Rob and NoelaNorthern Trek June - July 2018
    Day26

    Big Bus Tour, Fishermans Wharf, CA

     July 10, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    The Lombard Inn was a good choice for its central location, 25 minutes walk to Fishermans Wharf and similar to the down town area, we did have a scare when on the first night the shower was ice cold with the same happening the next morning. They got the boiler fixed and it has been all good since then reducing the room rate for one day $50.00.
    Last time we were here we used the Big Bus Hop on and Hop off service, we did the same this time buying the deluxe package which gave us 48 hours and the night tour and the Sausalito tour as well. We reacquainted ourselves with the cities colourful past, and its different sectors. We took advantage of the Sausalito tour today the wealthiest part of SF, rents are up around $17,000 per month. Robin Williams lived just down the road at Tiberon, and everyone that we spoke to or heard from just gushed about the man he was and what he did for the homeless. San Francisco is the poorer for his loss.
    We returned to the North point of the Goldengate Bridge, Carl and Paola continued to the southside where they walked the bridge whilst Noela and I went back to Fisherman’s Wharf where we listened and watched the buskers, watched the seals on pier 39, and generally walked and took in the sights.
    We caught up with Carl and Paola at 5.45PM to do the Big Bus night tour over the Bay Bridge and other parts. We had an awesome guide Blake Klemett who absolutely had us entertained all trip. By the time we got off the bus it was freezing with the coastal wind coming in.
    We can thoroughly recommend the Big Bus tour service.    Read more

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  • Christine HellsternUSA
    Day5

    Fahrt nach Lake Tahoe über Richmond

     August 10, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    Wir verlassen SFO 😒Auf geht's auf dem Highway 80 East Richtung Richmond nach Tahoe, ca 250 km 😊🌊🚣‍♀️🚴‍♀️
    Fahrt dauerte länger als erwartet.... Sehr viel Wochenendverkehr.
    Von 28 Grad in Richmond auf ca 16 Grad, liegt 1900 m hoch.
    Basecamp sieht toll aus und wir wurden von Live Musik im Biergarten begrüßt.
    22.00Uhr last order... Dann gehen alle brav schlafen 😊    Read more

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  • M and S around the world
    Day50

    First two days in San Francisco

     August 11, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

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    We are in love with San Francisco!
    After dropping the car of on Saturday, we took the BART train downtown. Our Hostel is located in a very nice area on the corner of Taylor and Bush Street. The Hostel is good: clean, quiet, alright kitchen and has a great location. We can easily walk to a cable car stop and towards Fisherman’s Wharf or the ferry Terminal - we’ll if you like walking up and down with some exercise 😅.
    On the first day we took the cable car to Fisherman’s Wharf. The Ride was so much fun! Loud and just different - kinda old school 🤣. Getting of at the Wharf we walked around, saw several US Military boats, spotted Alcatraz Island 🤩 and visited Pier 39. Besides food and shops, the pier offers a nice information center about sea lions and also a lovely view of a sea lions “island” - they relax directly next to the pier 🤩. Such smelly funny cuties!!!
    Today we just walked around, first towards Union Square, then to a mall (Sophie needed some new sneaker - mine are broken) before we went to the salesforce tower and park. A nice rooftop park in the middle of SF. Another walk to the ferry terminal and we were ready to walk all the way back to the hostel. What exciting two first days 🥰. Tomorrow we’re gonna start biking SF🚴🏼‍♀️.

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    Wir sind verliebt in San Francisco!
    Nachdem wir den Wagen am Samstag abgegeben hatten, nahmen wir den BART-Train in die Innenstadt. Unser Hostel befindet sich in einer sehr schönen Gegend an der Ecke Taylor und Bush Street. Das Hostel ist gut: sauber, ruhig, soweit gute Küche und besonders hat es eine tolle Lage. Wir können leicht zu Fuß zu einer Cablecar Haltestelle und in Richtung Fisherman's Wharf oder zum Fährterminal laufen - vorausgesetzt, dass man gerne mit workout auf und ab geht😅.
    Am ersten Tag fuhren wir mit dem Cable Car zum Fisherman's Wharf. Die Ride hat so viel Spaß gemacht! Laut und einfach anders - irgendwie Old School 🤣. Als wir am Pier ankamen, gingen wir herum, sahen mehrere US-Militärboote, entdeckten Alcatraz Island 🤩 und besuchten Pier 39. Neben Essen und Geschäften bietet der Pier ein schönes Informationszentrum über Seelöwen und auch einen schönen Blick auf eine Seelöweninsel - sie entspannen sich direkt neben dem Pier 🤩. So stinkende, lustige, süße Dinger .
    Heute sind wir einfach nur herumgelaufen, zuerst zum Union Square, dann in ein Einkaufszentrum (Sophie brauchte einen neuen Sneaker denn meine sind kaputt😢). Danach ging es zum Salesforce Tower und Park. Ein schöner Park auf dem Dach inmitten der Stadt von SF. Ein weiterer Spaziergang zum Fährterminal und wir waren bereit, den ganzen Weg zurück zum Hostel zu gehen. Was für aufregende zwei erste Tage 🥰. Morgen werden wir anfangen zu radeln SF🚴🏼‍♀️.    Read more

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  • Andreas SiegristU. S. A Roadtrip 2019
    Day2

    Morgenstimmung

     September 29, 2019 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 11 °C

    Erster Morgen in Frisco. Das Wetter ist gut, Dank Jetlag schon früh unterwegs. Einige Eindrücke hab ich gepostet - es waren auch spezielle dabei😉
    Vor unserem Hotel parkte noch die SF Firefighters.
    Jetzt versuchen wir CableCar zu fahren und nach Downtown SF zu gelangen.    Read more

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  • USA Reise
    Day23

    "Under the Bridge" - Tour

     November 17, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    Nachdem sich der Tag heute schon in der Früh sonnig und mit blauem Himmel gezeigt hat, sind wir noch einmal zur Golden Gate Bridge gefahren und hatten wirklich Erfolg. Wir haben sie in all ihrer Pracht gesehen! 😎
    Danach haben wir nach 3 Wochen unseren supercoolen Ford Mustang zurückgegeben. Lt. Tacho sind wir 3186 Meilen (5100 km) gefahren. 👍
    Darauf sind wir richtig stolz!

    Sind dann von Nob Hill, durch den Financel District und vorbei am Union Square ( wo es einen Minieislaufplatz gibt), hinunter zum Pier 1 gegangen und weiter zum Pier 43, wo wir eine Bootstour gemacht haben und die Brücke auch noch von unten bewundern konnten.    Read more

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  • Fitzgerald FamilyMaya Trip
    Day37

    Cycling

     July 22, 2017 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    Cycling

    Today we went cycling 🚵 around Golden Gate Park. But before that, we went to Palace Of Fine Arts and we saw some swans and birds in the pond. It was pretty and Mammy took loads of photos. When Daddy drove to golden gate park. Conor had a small bike, I had a kids medium bike, Daddy had a big adult bike and Mammy had a medium adult bike. We went Cycling on the bike path and we stopped for lunch. Me and Conor had Jumbo beef hotdog, it was delicious 😋!! Mine was plain and Conor added ketchup. Then on the way back, I stood up on my bike 🚴 and had 1 hand holding on, and it was super cool. Then I sat down and had 1 hand on the bike and suddently I crashed into the cone people were going to use for the marathon tomorrow! If you look at it, there is 1 odd cone. One has fallen down. 🙊 The bikes seat wasn't comfy and then my hands started to hurt. Then, I realised that we cycled for 2 hours such a good excercise!Read more

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  • Susan TappourasBonnells Bay goes to USA
    Day8

    Day 8 flight to San Francisco

     January 24, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    Today we had breakfast with Lance and Bella and it was lovely to see them so happy together before they fly off to their honeymoon in Hawai tomorrow.

    We then headed to the airport for our flight to San Francisco.

    The flight was only an hour or so and we reached SF and caught the sky train to the rental car company to get another 12 seater bus as Jeremy enjoys driving us all around!
    We checked into the Holiday Inn at Fisherman’s Wharf and then headed straight down to Fisherman’s Wharf to get some of their famous chowder. We looked around and Phoebe and the kids had disappeared. They preferred to go to In N Out Burger!

    Darren and I and Dad and Ruth ended up at a seafood restaurant for dinner and had crab chowder in a bread bowl and a huge plate of crab claws.

    Jem and Rose and the kids headed off to a basketball game they had booked tickets for.

    We got our first glimpse of Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge covered in fog. Tomorrow we go to Alcatraz.    Read more

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  • Joel BaldwinUSA 2018
    Day33

    A Reunion

     November 20, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C

    We'd planned to go back into San Francisco for the morning, but with the smoke overshadowing everything and being satisfied with what we'd seen yesterday, we decided to just hang around the hotel until checkout at 12pm. Instead we used that time to book our next trip - Sri Lanka and India in January/February 2019! Watch this space.

    So we checked out, drove up into San Fran and then across the Bay Bridge to Oakland. First stop was a random Trader Joe's supermarket where we had lunch (cheap wraps and salads), then back to the car heading a bit further to east to Walnut Creek.

    Walnut Creek is where my cousin Ian lives with his girlfriend Tracey. I was really excited to see them both, as I'd never met Tracey and it had been nearly two years since I'd seen Ian. And coincidentally, his mum/my aunt was also in town after a trip to Mexico, so we had a nice little family reunion! Ian seems very settled in his life in California, working in the tech field while Tracey does something in the finance industry in San Fran.

    We had a great afternoon relaxing and catching up, then wandered over to a nearby Italian restaurant for dinner. Tasty food though with enormous American portions - none of us could finish! Wandered off to bed very full and satisfied.    Read more

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You might also know this place by the following names:

Contra Costa County, مقاطعة كونترا كوستا, Контра Коста, কোন্ট্রা কোস্টা কাউন্টি, Kantono Contra Costa, Condado de Contra Costa, Contra Costa konderria, شهرستان کنترا کوستا، کالیفرنیا, Contra Costan piirikunta, Comté de Contra Costa, 康特拉科斯塔縣, Contra Costa megye, Քոնտրա Քոստա շրջան, Contra Costa, Contea di Contra Costa, コントラコスタ郡, Contra Costa Comitatus, Contra Costa Kūn, Hrabstwo Contra Costa, کونٹرا کوسٹا کاؤنٹی, Контра-Коста, Округ Контра Коста, کونٹرا کوسٹا کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا, Quận Contra Costa, Condado han Contra Costa, 康特拉科斯塔县

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