We crossed the double-deck Bay Bridge from Oakland to Downtown San Fran. Crooked and steep streets are common in San Fran. We enjoyed a morning walk at Lombard St, America’s most crooked street. Didn’t manage to “climb” 22nd Steet. The slope is 31°, which makes it one of the steepest streets in the world. Imagine if there’s winter in SF, one could just ski anywhere in the streets! Just like in Hakodate! (Japan)
Had our dim sum breakfast at Chinatown. Price was about 10USD per person. Realized how much I missed the food in Singapore!
Proceed to Palace of the Fine Arts http://www.palaceoffinearts.org/ . 100 yrs after an earthquake and re-construction, it still look well-taken care off!
Palace of the Fine Arts
The 3rd Sunday of May is Bay Breaker (www.ingbaytobreakers.com/main.html ) - joggers will dress themselves with costumes for 8-mile run.
Levis was actually first established is San Francisco in the early days of Gold Rush. http://www.levistrauss.com/ and in SF, they are still situated at the same location as before along Battery Street.n
Rainbow flags and rainbow decorations around the town and buildings symbolises Gay Pride in SF www.sfpride.org/ which started way back in 1970. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Pride
Napa Valley is abt 30min drive from the Golden Gate Bridge.
Golden Gate Bridge
Napa Valley-plenty of vineyards ( but we couldn’t see any grapes). We bought 4 dessert wines in all. Didn’t cost much at all. The Microsoft Wallpaper which we have in our screens is Napa Valley. Can you believe it??
Went to Pier 39. www.pier39.com/They are famous for their Clam Chowder - it's delicious. there's plenty of things to shop at Pier 39. From food to art. HY bought some posters from Image Arts San Francisco located at Building N level 1. It's really cheap!!
Pier 39
Clam Chowder
After lunch it was free time! so 3 of us just roamed around the central district area, and considering it's Sunday, the entire street seemed so desserted...
Desserted streets...
