Today was a day of walking. First from our lodgings up the hill to Pacific Heights. In SF, your income is reflected by how high up the hills you can live. As we saw, the quality of the houses, and their size, certainly increased as we climbed, Not that the hills are "that" high, but there is a view to be had, and the hills are steep, some of them approaching 30 degrees. I reflected that if it were to snow here, that's almost steep enough to avalanche! Here, the present hazard is earthquake. I saw this picture of a residential area here after an earthquake earlier in the last century.....
We continued to walk on towards Chinatown which was easy to identify once we arrived. After wandering around, we had lunch in one of the many restaurants. I was a bit surprised with how persistent some of the restaurant workers were that we should visit "their" establishment. One woman followed me halfway down the block, another came to her door twice inviting us in. Lunch was very good once we picked one. As usual, the stores were filled with an amazing quantity of "stuff" - overflowing, actually....
Then is was more wandering on in the general direction of Fisherman's Wharf again, passing by Coit Tower, on another hill, naturally, which afforded a good view of some of the city. The Guide book has an interesting story about the origin of the Tower - you can look it up in Wikkipedia too.
We decided to take a boat tour of the harbour - an hour-long ride out to the Golden Gate Bridge, back and around Alcatraz. The Golden Gate is a pretty impressive bridge; it's construction was completed in only 52 weeks. We're hoping to walk over part of it tomorrow if we can.
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