“Wow!”, “Amazing!”, “Very pretty”. These comments were uttered the most as we drove down the Oregon coast and into California. The rugged Oregon coastline was so beautiful with its backdrop of pine trees.
Last night we stayed in a motel in Eureka, Oregon, a beach town with some stunning old houses. We had a Guinness and fish and chips in an Irish pub that had an Irish band.
Took off this morning heading for San Francisco and very excited. Drove right along the coast and into the Avenue of Giants when we hit California. Fantastic forest of the most amazingly huge redwood trees. Also saw herds of Elk grazing by the roadside. And the edges of the highway are just covered in the most amazing wild flowers. Huge azalea bushes and fox gloves and daisies and other things. Just beautiful.
Coming in San Francisco was very exciting. The traffic wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be and we entered by driving over the Golden Gate Bridge! Awesome! $6 toll. LEK had booked a motel but we spent some time trying to get to it as there are so many one way streets, that we couldn’t find our way to it. We did eventually and the room is great … and cheap as they are doing some renovations. We will stay here 2 nights.
We went to fisherman’s wharf for dinner … loads of people and lots of crappy food. Then went for a drive through the Mission and Castro parts of town. Saw the Harvey Milk Academy and a place called Twin Peaks. Castro, the gay area of town looks cool and we will investigate that tomorrow. June is gay month in San Fran, culminating in the Dyke March at the end of the month. San Francisco is a cool town and quite easy to find your way around … with the help of a map of course. One of our favourite places so far.
