Yes, we're going to San Francisco today but I didn't wear flowers in my hair (hope you remember the 1967 song "If You're Going to San Francisco" by Scott MKenzie).

We made a few stops on the way. The first one being Santa Cruz. As it was a Sunday it was very busy, if fact everywhere there was a beach it was busy.

We walked out on the warf and heard a lot of noise coming from under the warf. When we looked down this is what we saw:
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Even though the water temperature is only in the high 50F, there were a lot of people in the water. Some just playing, others paddle boarding and lots surfing (the surfers wear wet or dry suits). Ed and I walked part of the boardwalk (not sure why they call it a boardwalk it's a paved pathway for bikes and pedestrians.

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One of the beautiful views.

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At a pull off we saw fields of wild flowers.

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Another stop was at this lighthouse. I'm sure they're not hens and chicks but they look like hens and chicks. I put my foot beside them for a size comparison.

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The coastline near the lighthouse.

Ed really doesn't like driving in cities so that's my job and I don't like heights so driving roads with shear drop offs are Ed's job. Unfortunately, I took over driving in Santa Cruz and drove the coast highway to San Francisco and got to experience some roads of the type I don't like. Luckily, we were driving north so we were on the inside lane so it's wasn't too bad. Then we were in San Francisco. The route in took us over relatively normal roads until there was a really steep road ahead of us --- yeah I got to turn and then we were at the hotel. Soon as we unloaded the car we went exploring.

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China town.

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Loved the skinny building between the other two normal size buildings. The clock tower on the ferry building.

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A ship in front of the Bay Bridge.

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Transamerica Pyramid. A night sceen near our hotel.

Our hotel is quite acceptable and in a very interesting location. To the east is Chinatown, to west (2 blocks away) are the strip clubs.