Top of my favorite cities in the world

Yesterday we went to the science center in San Francisco, which is located in the Golden Gate Park.

Lots of exhibits are there, also a huge planetarium which was making me very dizzy. It was interesting but on the other hand I felt very sad for the animals put into –imho- tiny plastic boxes. We stepped on a scale (both of us at the same time) to discover how many of us is the weight of one blue whale. It will need 826 for it. Not so bad at all. We both didn’t feel very bad after that, at least we didn’t stepped on it alone.

After this we (ok, mostly me) started a new run on the Geocaches there. Bossy was twittering all the time while sitting on a parkbank, sharing his geocaching experiences with the world.  He was very amused to see me running through the woods and bushes, crawling over the ground – with no success. He checked the spoilers and logs with his Ipad and I was getting more and more confused. Then another Cachinggroup arrived. So we were 6 people – plus bank-sitting-Bossy – who were searching for the box. And I found it. Hurray for me! After a nice chat with these people I gave them my personal coin – now it is on its way back home I hope and will not get lost in the hands of coin-ninjas.

If I ever thought Amsterdam was a beautiful city and Belgium a wonderful country, I had no idea of San Francisco: This is a wonderful, amazing, beautiful, breathtaking, fantastic, fabulous, great, excellent, perfect, exquisite city! I was so amazed, staring around again, totally stumbled by the beauty of this city. We drove to the harbor, there is a market hall with the flair of an oriental bazaar. This hall was located near the Bay Bridge, not the Golden Gate, the other one. The view over the bay with nearby island there, the smell of the ocean, the sailing ships,… I am really out of words to describe it.

I have shown Bossy a “Virtual Cache” near the harbor, saw a man who had fished very large fishes out of there. And we went on through the Market Street, back to the car. On the way back we picked up 2 more caches, Bossy found one of them. This one was very close to the Cable Cars, we didn’t take a ride with them but I was again staring and impressed with this city. He showed me where he had lived. In a park nearby I found a Nano by crawling on the ground.

Then I thought we would drive back – ok we did, not the direct way but through the city. Riding is very exciting here. Not only that you really feel like you are in the mountains, it is very steep, and at intersections the one who arrived first there, is the one who can go on first. We drove to the Pacific, there is a sort of cliff, where till the end of the 1960’ a swimming pool in Victorian style was located. It burned down, and now there are only ruins left. It was impressive: this area is still San Francisco but you don’t have the feeling you are in the big city. A breathtaking view over the ocean all the way to a part of the Golden Gate Bridge.

There we did a very short multi. Counting steel pipes in a cave near the ocean where the originally pipe system fed the swimming pool with water.

I finally took of my shoes: Barefoot in San Francisco! There was too much sand inside and outside my shoes. 

Sadly we had to back over the sunny, warm and cliffy road. Both of us were out of breath. Apparently I switched 3 numbers of the final coordinates – so we needed to go a few 100 meters back. But Bossy, with his new sense for finding Tupperware in the woods, got him! Hurray to Bossy!

The way back up to the car made us both feel like we were getting a heart attack soon.

Back to the car we drove back, along the crowded beach, though the hills back to San Jose.

I decided to make San Francisco the very top of my favorite cities in the world.

PS: More pictures are on Facebook again!