On June 24th, it was our last day on the TrekAmerica tour. We got up for breakfast at 9 and had everything ready and cleaned at 10:30. The entire day was spent driving to San Francisco, with little to report on the way there. We got to the city at about 4:30, where I bid farewell to my fellow travellers and phoned Alice, who I would be staying with.
San Francisco is known as one of the more affluent and 'liveable' cities in the US, with a population of about 800,000 and another 7 million in the surrounding Bay Area. Apart from landmarks like Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge, it's home to Silicon Valley, where many of the world's computer companies originated from.
I caught the surprisingly clean BART public transport trail to the Albany in the East Bay area, where I met Alice, who I had first met on a bus tour in New Zealand. I got settled in and contemplated what to do over the next 7 days I was in the city.
