San Fransisco, Day One, Con't ...
Location: San Francisco, California
Duration: Five Days and Four Nights
Did I mention that it's raining? Not your little light showers, either. It is pouring down a lot of the time. But it hasn't deterred us yet. We are still walking most places and seeing everything we wanted to see.
We did picked up our cable car passes this afternoon, though. They'll be good for the whole trip. There is a cable car "turn about" right by the hotel. That's where the line ends and the men jump off and manually turn the cable car around so it can go back the way it came.
We took our first cable car all the way to Chinatown, getting off at Grant Street where "The Gate" signals the beginning of Chinatown. We stopped to have a hot coco at Starbucks right across the street, so we could see "The Gate" from where we sat. It's still pouring rain and we just wanted to warm up a bit.
After wards, we walked through "The Gates" and started up this amazing street with all its sights and sounds. There was so much color and so many people talking in Chinese. When you passed one shop you might smell the incense that was burning inside, only to pass another and smell what they were cooking. You use one sense after another and yet, it's never enough and you just want more.
I don't know what caught Larry's attention when we passed this one little store. He's not much of a shopper, but he had us go in and go to the back where were were presented with a wall of swords. Most were just for show, but they had a whole collection of hand made, full tang gorgeous beauties. After over an hour of looking at this one and that one, we had bought two (Valentine's gift to each other) and had cruised the rest of the store to buy the kids souvenirs.
We had to stop and buy a five dollar San Fransisco tourist bag just to hold all the things we bought for the kids. And we rarely buy souvenirs anywhere.
Now, two years ago, while in San Fransisco for Larry's work we discovered the greatest Chinese food ever at a place called The House of Nanking. We had convinced ourselves that it had to be too good to be true because nothing could taste that amazing. We found the place again, ordered our food and almost died it was so much like we remembered. It's not a fancy place. It's really just another Hole in the Wall. Oh, but the food here ... everyone who visits San Fransisco should eat here.
Duration: Five Days and Four Nights
Did I mention that it's raining? Not your little light showers, either. It is pouring down a lot of the time. But it hasn't deterred us yet. We are still walking most places and seeing everything we wanted to see.
We did picked up our cable car passes this afternoon, though. They'll be good for the whole trip. There is a cable car "turn about" right by the hotel. That's where the line ends and the men jump off and manually turn the cable car around so it can go back the way it came.
We took our first cable car all the way to Chinatown, getting off at Grant Street where "The Gate" signals the beginning of Chinatown. We stopped to have a hot coco at Starbucks right across the street, so we could see "The Gate" from where we sat. It's still pouring rain and we just wanted to warm up a bit.
After wards, we walked through "The Gates" and started up this amazing street with all its sights and sounds. There was so much color and so many people talking in Chinese. When you passed one shop you might smell the incense that was burning inside, only to pass another and smell what they were cooking. You use one sense after another and yet, it's never enough and you just want more.
I don't know what caught Larry's attention when we passed this one little store. He's not much of a shopper, but he had us go in and go to the back where were were presented with a wall of swords. Most were just for show, but they had a whole collection of hand made, full tang gorgeous beauties. After over an hour of looking at this one and that one, we had bought two (Valentine's gift to each other) and had cruised the rest of the store to buy the kids souvenirs.
We had to stop and buy a five dollar San Fransisco tourist bag just to hold all the things we bought for the kids. And we rarely buy souvenirs anywhere.
Now, two years ago, while in San Fransisco for Larry's work we discovered the greatest Chinese food ever at a place called The House of Nanking. We had convinced ourselves that it had to be too good to be true because nothing could taste that amazing. We found the place again, ordered our food and almost died it was so much like we remembered. It's not a fancy place. It's really just another Hole in the Wall. Oh, but the food here ... everyone who visits San Fransisco should eat here.