Day 6 - San Francisco

   

 

It must have been The Fourth of July...

 

Morning breaks at the Timber Cove Inn, in Jenner, California... about 90 miles north of San Francisco...

 

     

 

 

On down the North Coast Highway...  Fort Ross...

 

www.parks.sonoma.net/rosshist.html

 

Proceeding on down toward San Francisco...

       

 

     

 

At Chanslor Ranch, a mile north of Bodega Bay and about 75 miles north of San Francisco, we reached the point that we had once rambled to from the south (back in August of 2000), thereby closing a gap with respect to explorations of the Pacific Coast. Having now reached Bodega Bay from the north, I have covered the Pacific coastline from Neah Bay, Washington, at the extreme northwestern tip of the contiguous United States, to south of Big Sur, California... roughly a thousand miles...

 

     

 

 

Bodega Bay...

 

In 1961 Alfred Hitchcock chose Bodega bay as the setting for film "The Birds," and memorabilia was all about...

 

       

 

   

 

Proceeding south... through Marin County...

 

       

 

       

 

     

 

Muir Beach overlook...

 

       

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muir_Beach_Overlook

 

And then the fog shrouded Golden Gate...

 

       

 

 

 

Form Marin County over the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco...

 

     

 

www.sfmuseum.org

 

Japan Town and the great Isobune ("canal boat") restaurant... the originators of the "sushi boat"...

 

       

 

     

 

We crossed the Oakland Bay Bridge to the Treasure Island naval base in the San Francisco Bay, where we refreshed ourselves with Gary West buffalo jerky and Revive Vitamin Water...

 

San Francisco	Alcatraz	Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco	Bay Bridge	Bay Bridge
Bay Bridge

 

On down the 101 toward San Jose...

 

At Chieko's house in Cupertino I held forth on guitar and Chieko and her mother prepared a fine dinner...

 

       

 

Then it was time to say sayonara to Chieko-san and board the Coast Starlight train at Dridon Station in San Jose for the long ride back up to Seattle...

       

 

 

 

As the train left San Jose and rolled up the East Bay I could see Forth of July fireworks displays all around, even from the San Francisco side of the Bay. The last thing I saw for several hours was a somewhat blurry image of Jack London Square in downtown Oakland...