We got up early today to be ready to be picked up by Mike and Jan. Mike is an old friend from school days who I've not seen since late 1991 so it was somewhat of a reunion too! Mike and Jan live in the Bay Area now and had kindly agreed to take us for some sightseeing for the day.
We started with a drive along Lombard Street, the crookedest street in the world, and then went on to the Golden Gate Bridge. We parked and walked along to the first support tower to get a feel for the size and perspective of the bridge. It was quite misty so the views were not as good as they could have been but it was pretty impressive nonetheless.
After Golden Gate we went on to Muir Woods where we stopped for a coffee and then went for a walk to see some extremely old and extremely tall Giant Redwoods. It was a good walk and was pretty busy, it being Easter Holidays for some.
After this we went for lunch in a town called Mill Valley and then on to another small town called Sonoma. Both towns were pretty and clearly quite well-off. We tasted some Californian wine in Sonoma and then Mike and Jan drove us back to our hotel via Alamo Square where the famous "painted ladies" houses can be seen - so typical of many movies made in this area.
We went out for dinner in the Hayes Valley area, using another cable car and a trolley bus to get there and a street car and a cable car to get back to the hotel.
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