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Oct 07, 2013
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Jan 21 - Day 2 Jan 21 - Day 2

Scott's Camera

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DSC00149 (our 1st full day in California... after we checked out of our hotel, we decided to drive around a bit - sightseeing. Our first stop was the world famous Lombard St. in San Francisco. We drove down it (Kim took pics of that))

DSC00150 (my wonderful fiance' taking a pic of me taking a pic of her)

DSC00157 (alot of tourists gather to take pics)

DSC00158crop (looking the other way down Lombard St.)

DSC00170 (here you can see the steep grade of the streets)

DSC00174 (when you park your car, you feel like it will tip over. there are probably alot of door dings on the right sides of cars here)

DSC00182crop (we drove up to a high point for some pictures. That's Alcatraz Island.)

DSC00194crop (busted out my super zoom on the new camera!)

DSC00213 (street car coming our way..)

DSC00216crop2 (cool ship in the harbor)

DSC00221 (we walked out on this breakwater)

DSC00225 (a close up look at Alcatraz from the breakwater)

DSC00238crop (great view of the Golden Gate Bridge from the breakwater)

DSC00246 (a lone fisherman)

DSC00248crop (a panoramic view of the Golden Gate Bridge)

DSC00255 (a panoramic view of the bay)

DSC00260 (a panoramic view of the Fisherman's Wharf area)

DSC00266 (tourists running around on Segways... looks fun!)

DSC00270 (we then walked from the breakwater back down to Fisherman's Wharf. We didn't get to see too much the evening before since we got into town late.. Here is the home of Ghirardelli Chocolate)

DSC00272 (some cool trees along the boardwalk)

DSC00279 (a big park along the shoreline)

DSC00285 (I wasn't the only one looking at the guy on the side of the building)

DSC00286 (ayyy matey.. he wasn't real. But is it a Pirate or an American Indian?)

DSC00288crop (a tankful of fresh Dungeness Crabs)

DSC00289 (where we had dinner the night before)

DSC00295 (many small fresh seafood markets...)

DSC00299 (a bakery made cool things out of bread...)

DSC00301 (a giant crocodile made out of bread - nearly 5 feet long!)

DSC00303 (there are tons of 'characters' along the boardwalk. Some of them prefer to be honest!)

DSC00305 (some old train station maps)

DSC00306 (swarms of seagulls!)

DSC00312 (some more boardwalk characters - Mr. Silver and Mr. Gold. Give them money and they start moving)

DSC00319 (very cool trees)

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DSC00332 (some big plants on the boardwalk)

DSC00336 (Kim's Heaven - the Ghirardelli Chocolate Store!)

DSC00338 (mini cans of soda! we had to get some)

DSC00339 (Chocolate Band-Aids)

DSC00340 (Chocolate Cigars)

DSC00341 (Chocolate Coma)

DSC00345 (everything in here was left handed... pretty funny)

DSC00347 (looking at Alcatraz from the south side now - zoomed in)

DSC00348 (Alcatraz was actually pretty far away)

DSC00349 (Sea Lions on Pier 39)

DSC00352 (The BIG BOSS of the Sea Lions!)

DSC00364 (a Giant crane game!!)

DSC00365 (double deck merry-go-round)

DSC00368 (Welcome to Bubba Gump... greeted by a Giant Shrimp. Now THAT'S an Oxymoron!)

DSC00370 (you can sit at the bench and wear Forrrest Gump's shoes...)

DSC00371 (the shrimp had a tail... I think)

DSC00374 (we went into a store where they sold many signature items. Here is a BB King signed guitar - for a measly $5495)

DSC00375 (Led Zeppelin signed guitar for a bargain - $4995)

DSC00376 (Nirvana - $7995)

DSC00377 (the Bargain of the day - Elvis Presley $32,995)

DSC00379crop (we went to the Hard Rock Cafe for lunch - here is the ceiling over the bar)

DSC00380 (we met a woman from the south somewhere who was traveling across the country for months. She was a little wacky and we couldn't really tell if she was being truthful or not, but according to her, she received a rather dire medical diagnosis and had only a few months to live. She decided to spend the last days of her life just going from place to place.)

DSC00388 (a mid-afternoon moon rises over the Eagle Cafe)

DSC00389 (entrance to the Hard Rock Cafe)

DSC00394 (more boardwalk characters!)

DSC00396 (steel drum ensemble. felt like you were in Jamaica... the sights and sounds were great)

DSC00397 (even Elmo was there)

DSC00399 (expensive to park here... we parked for free down at the breakwater)

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DSC00420 (no clue what kind of bird this was but he looked pretty miserable!)

DSC00423 (we drove around the town a bit then headed north across the Golden Gate Bridge towards Muir Woods, about 45 minutes north of the city. Muir Woods is a giant Redwood forest...)

DSC00441 (Muir Woods is in a large mountain valley. the trees need to grow very tall to extend out of the valley. many of the trees are covered in moss, such as this one)

DSC00451 (cross section of a fallen tree. You can't read it very well, but the very center says "909 AD - A tree is born". This tree fell in 1930, so it was 1021 years old when it fell...)

DSC00460 (this is the tree the previous image described - you can see the burned center section, and all the tress that grew from it's base.)

DSC00469 (a look straight up the giant trees)

DSC00472 (a vertical panoramic view)

DSC00478 (yes, that is Kim standing at the base of this giant!)

DSC00492 (a panoramic view of a small creek running through the park)

DSC00493 (started getting near duck, so I used a flash on this one..)

DSC00495 (this picture gives you a good feel for the size of the trees in this forest... everything is dwarfed by them.. especially the people! look at the people way in the back compared to the trees behind them!)

DSC00512 (some kids were hiding from their parents inside a fallen tree!)

DSC00514 (you can hardly see them in there)

DSC00515 (trying ti take a picture of the tree in the back - it is split wide open, probably from lightning or a wildfire. The center is wide open, yet it still stands)

DSC00517 (here's another tree with the center wide open)

DSC00520 (we had someone take out picture standing inside the tree!)

DSC00528 (weird base of this tree)

DSC00536 (using my new camera to show movement in the water, while everything else remains in focus..)

DSC00537 (another attempt at having the water move, while everything else remains in focus)

DSC00545 (an absolute Mammoth of a tree!)

DSC00552 (it's getting darker out - a beautiful evening with the moon rising)

DSC00562 (this tree had fallen across the walkway...)

DSC00572 (another moving water shot... getting better at this!)

DSC00575 (we are back to the beginning of the park - this is the tree i shot earlier - a closer look at the moss covering it)

DSC00582 (once we emerged from the dark valley, we realized the sun hadn't set yet.. tough to get a great picture, but there was a deep valley in front of us and big hills behind)

DSC00583 (a look back at the road we traveled.. riding the edge of a cliff with very steep drops)

DSC00595 (gorgeous sunset....)

DSC00597 (looking across the bays towards San Francisco way off the right)

DSC00606 (just about to get back on the Golden Gate bridge towards San Francisco.. look at the line of cars in both directions on the bridge ahead)

DSC00609 (couldn't really get out to take pictures, so they have to be through the car window!)

DSC00615 (we drove back to Lombard street so I could practice taking pictures... cars coming down the street with their lights on and traffic passing by below)

DSC00617crop (had the shutter open for at least a full minute!)

DSC00621crop (now trying some long exposure shots on the Coit tower - notice the cars trails on the streets below)

DSC00626 (and now it is time to begin our journey south.. we take a drive through the heart of downtown San Francisco first... no idea how far we will drive tonight)

DSC00629 (last shot of the evening... tried getting a pic of this cool building as we were driving past - moderately successful. We drove for about an hour or so, maybe closer to 2 hours, down to Pacifico... got very lucky and found a perfect hotel right on the beach and an amazing restaurant right across the street. Probably the single best meal Kim and I have EVER had!! simply incredible.. she has pictures on her camera roll. slept with the patio doors open and the sound of waves crashing on the rocks coaxing us to sleep...)

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