Friday 25/04/2008 - San Fran, Muir Woods, Pacific Highway.

Mileage - ~150 miles?? (via San Francisco, Muir Woods, Pacific Highway)

Chris drove us down the crookedest street which was cool although you can only go 5mph not like in the film Bullit. He then drove us North over the Golden Gate Bridge and into Marin County.

We saw lots of Giant Redwood trees in Muir Woods that looked very Jurassic (no dinosours though). Did about a 4 mile hike there which was stunning, yet very peaceful, although it was mainly uphill. Drove to Tam Point which gave a superb view of San Francisco bay from the other side. Really nice drive there and some great scenery, some of which reminds us of home.

Chris then drove us really fast down miles of very windy roads in his 400hp Jag to a Greek Restaurant called Papa's. The food was nice and then we drove back home for a bit of packing and a few beers.

That's almost the end of our adventure, we just need to get home safely now. Thakyou all for sharing the journey with us, we hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did. Thanks to everyone we have met who have helped us on our journey. Special thanks to Krzysiek, uncle Tadek and Agnieszka for looking after us so well at the start of our trip and to Chris for making the effort to put up with us at the end of the trip. We'd also like to thank our wives for letting us go and not giving us too much grief.

Highlights - USA.

Lowlights - no significant ones apart from missing the Chevy and waking up in a different town every morning (and missing our families).

Good night, God bless America.


Andy and Jaf.

Wednesday 23/04/2008 - San Francisco

Mileage - ~90 miles (Into San Francisco)

We got up relatively early this morning and had a decent breakfast at the motel before heading towards San Francisco (Jaf also stole 3 apples, 2 oranges and 4 eggs). We hit a lot of traffic (saw accidents for the first time - well apart from Inyokern) on the freeway and it took us ages to get there, despite not being very far away.

We managed to get an early check-in into the Travelodge in the middle of San Francisco and we made our way on foot through the city. Whilst we are only 3 miles away from Fisherman's Wharf Harbour, we forgot about the massive hills here. Walked up Russian Hill and up the 'Crookedest Street' - all straight out of Bullit and The Rock. Cool. We also walked past the labour exchange - more drunks and bums here than we've seen in a while.

We did a boat trip to the Golden Gate bridge and around Alcatraz. We just about spotted some whales but I'm not sure if it will appear on the video. We've also bought cable-car passes so we've had a go on the old trams up and down the very, very steep streets. It's a bit windy here and not exactly warm, but we're enjoying Fisherman's Wharf and the choice of 68 draft beers available in the bar we're in (Jacks?). Next for us is El Torro Black Rasperry and for Jaffa - Moylands Kilt Lifter.

Highlights - Alcatraz, Golden Gate Bridge, Whale, Cable-cars, Fisherman's Wharf, Nob Hill (mainly for the name), Crookedest Road and all the other roads used in the Bullit car-chase, Checking into a central motel for $80, different beers.

Lowlights - Cold (Jaf got blue hands holding onto the cable-car), got tired walking 3 miles to the waterfront because of the hills, Actually paying $125 bucks for the room including parking and tax (and it's a stinking smoking room opposite a massage parlour and all of our belongings are probably being stolen as I write). Realising that tomorrow night will be our penultimate e-mail.

Tomorrow - Napa Valley. (Wine Tasting - Jaf is driving (he can pass any sobriety test no matter what)) - if the car is still there.

Jaf and Andy.