Wednesday, 15 August 2007

Out and about in San Francisco

The next day I got the BART train into the city with Alice and then went to buy a cheap phone, since I had lost my own in Los Angeles. After getting a simple pay as you go phone from AT&T, I called Emma and Isa from the TrekAmerica tour and we met up in Union Square in the city centre.


We went to the tourist information office and then booked a trip to Alcatraz due to the high demand for the city's most popular attraction. We walked down to the Embarcadero area, where we began to walk along the various piers. Number 39 is Fisherman's Wharf, a tourist attraction akin to a theme park, where we ended up having lunch at a fish and chip place.


The rest of the afternoon was spent getting to the famous Golden Gate Bridge. We caught a bus to the Marina district, then walked the rest of the way. Along the way we met a few other people from our TrekAmerica tour, which was pretty cool. After catching the bus back into the city centre, I got the BART train back to Albany and Alice's house.