22June06 Thursday
Today we continued our trek to San Francisco. It has been a relaxing trip to just drive until we felt like stopping to look at something or to stop for the night. We didn't set a schedule for ourselves only to be at the airport in Santa Ana for our flight at noon on Wednesday June 28th.
We stopped at a couple places along the way today to "smell the flowers". From Santa Cruz we headed north on Hwy 1. We stopped at Pigeon Point lighthouse which is a postcard view. Lighthouses, as with a lot of other historical buildings, are suffering deterioration and are expensive to keep as historical places. As I recall the lighthouse area has been designated a state park but they are looking for funding to preserve the area.
Adjacent to the lighthouse is a hostel with a terrific view of the Pacific and shore. The private room with bath is $55 for a night. We headed on up towards SF but at just past Half Moon Bay the coast road is closed due to a slide and we had to detour inland to I280 for the rest of the trip SF. The GPS that came on the rental car has been an asset and probably prevented a lot of arguments between Joan and I. It took us right to the hotel at the corner of Lombard and Van Ness.
As we eventually found out Lombard St. has one of the major attractions of SF. It is the curvy street that is often seen in movies on one side of the hill and the other is the steep 40% grade street that is often in race scenes with the cars coming down the hill and being propelled into the air as they go across the cross streets. On our first walking excursion we walked down to Fisherman's Wharf and then up and down Lombard St. All in all it was a pretty good hike.
In the pictures are scenes of the flowers along the coast, Pigeon Pt. lighthouse, beware of cat signs on an apartment building gate, and photos of Lombard St.
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