SAN FRANCISCO AT LAST

It is June 7, 2013 and we just pulled in the San Francisco Rv Park in the town of Pacifica about 15 miles from San Francisco.  The weather is cloudy and extremely foggy.  We go to an italian place for pizza lunch within walking distance and then get groceries at the Safeway.  Here in california they don't use plastic bags in the supermarkets or anywhere, so we pay 10 cents each for two bags to carry our groceries.  They are a little heavier than expected, ha ha. 

We decide to tour San Francisco, tomorrow on Saturday, boy what a mistake, you can't go on weekends, the traffic is horrendous and hoardes of people.  After sitting in traffic for a long time we get down to a farmers market, fishermans wharf, and have a nice lunch at a place called "Sinbads".  As you can see by the photo Joel is happy he got to eat.  Very upscale place.  We walk around the farmers market, have never seen so many shops and stalls, inside and out and street performers.  We get home in the afternoon and have a simple dinner, sandwiches.  The great thing about the day was the weather was perfect cool and sunny.

Well, it is Sunday, and we decide to go to Muir Woods to see the giant redwoods, about 45 minutes away.  We have to cross the Golden Gate Bridge to get there.  They don't take cash so they take a picture of your license plate and will send you a bill.  I put a picture of that bridge and also the Bay Bridge where we were at the restaurant overlooking it.  Well, we manage to get almost to the redwoods, and find out their lot is filled and we have to take a shuttle there, which wasn't too bad, loads of switchbacks up and down the mountains in a BUS.  I have some nice photos of the redwoods so it was worth it.  We get back early and I make veal parmigiana and brussels sprouts for dinner.  Aah, I love my own food.

Its Monday morning and the weather is horrible, rained overnight, intense fog and biting cold, we had heat on at night.  We get an early start for Reno, and go through a toll booth we thought was wide enough, thats what we thought, a stantion breaks our passenger mirror right off, and it is hanging by a thread.  Try to drive a 65 foot motorhome and cargo trailer without a mirror on your right side.  Joel manages to get us to a Camping World in Vacaville, but they have no parts and cannot help us.  However, an rv salvage yard and repair shop in Sacramento may be able to help us, so off we go to Sacramento.  Yay, we realize we have side cameras which work with our turn signals, so the gods are with us.  We go to a rv park in sacramento to spend the night and the directions they give us are useless, so I plug in our new Gps and we get there.  Tomorrow we will go to the salvage yard and hopefully they can help us and put us on the road to Reno which is only about 2 hours away.  So enjoy these photos, the sea and shore were right behind our rv park on the top of a cliff.