September 30 LA to SF

From what I have seen of California so far I am surprised at how mountainous it is and very hilly even in big cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles. I suppose it is normal for a big city, but I am still surprised at how dense the buildings are. There does not seem to be such things as yards around where we've been so far. The traffic is incredible...even last night, Sunday night, it took us over an hour and a half to get across town... It was stop and go. I am glad Roger is an experienced driver.

We spent the night in Dublin just east of San Francisco as we could stay there much cheaper than in San Francisco. This morning we crossed the Oakland bridge and went north of San Francisco about 30 minutes to Muir  Woods National Monument and walk through part of the redwood forest.

 Then we drove across the Golden Gate Bridge in a fog and went by Gharardelli Square to sample their chocolate and we drove up to the top of Lombard Street and drove down and took some pictures. We drove up the hill where the Ciot Tower was overlooking the city but it was still too foggy to get a good view of the Golden Gate Bridge.

We did get some cool shots of Alcatraz from there though. We tried find some place to park so we could ride the trolley but were unsuccessful. We did drive through Chinatown in the process. We had both had enough of the traffic by then so we decided to go to the IKEA we had passed earlier that day and had lunch and did some shopping there.