TRIP TO SAN FRANCISCO: Here are the picture links from our second visit to San Francisco in July 2001. Newer links will always appear in the entries above this point.
Janet and I were able to spend a week with Charles and Carrie. While they still lived in Foster City, Charles was in the process of buying a condo up in San Francisco, and getting ready to move right after we left.
We arrived on Wednesday, July 25th. It took two hours to rent a car from Dollar, ugh, but the price was right. We then drove down to Palo Alto to see the Stanford Campus and surrounds. Charles and Carrie met us there for dinner.
Thursday was a great day. Especially if you like golf. We drove down Highway 1 to Monteray and took the famous "17 mile drive." It costs $8 to do it, you enter through a park type gate, but what a super drive. Past Spanish Bay, Spyglass, Cypress Point...of course I had to stop in all the club houses...and on to the grandaddy of them all, Pebble Beach. We had lunch in the Lodge on the 18th hole overlooking the ocean ... I was in heaven. We were able to walk down to the eighteenth tee after lunch. Then on to Poppy Hill and finally back to where we began.
Charles took the day off work on Friday to join us in the city and sign the papers on his condo. We went to Fort Point under the Golden Gate Bridge. The fog was in so it made for some pretty dramatic pictures. Then I had to go find the Presidio Golf Course which overlooks the bridge. This course was made public 6 years ago and has pretty reasonable rates. I shall return. We also went to the Botanical gardens part of the Golden Gate park. You could spend a whole day here. We went over to Castro Street and saw Paul Moffet's business, but Paul was out of town.
SF visit - Day 3 - San Francisco
We all went to Napa Valley on Saturday, to tour the wine country. There were 200 different vineyards so we missed a few. We stopped at the west coast Culinary Institute of America (CIA) which occupies the former Christian Brothers vineyard. Our last stop in the valley was at the RMS distillery. Probably my favorite. We stopped in Sausalito on our way back to San Francisco and had dinner right on the bay overlooking the city.
SF visit - Day 4 - Napa Valley and Sausalito
Sunday was a short tour day because Charles and Carrie had to start packing. We drove down to San Jose and went to the Winchester Mansion. Sarah Winchester inherited her husbands fortunes as well as the ghosts of all the people the Winchester rifle supposedly killed. She was told by a psychic that to appease the spirits she must keep adding onto her house and never stop. Which she did for 37 years at a cost of 5.5 million dollars.