Saturday 31st January 2015- We are FREE

The sun came up over the Bay Bridge at around 0730 as we were just having a cup of tea and watching Sky Sports talking about the Chelsea vs Man City game later that day and getting our minds in gear for today’s efforts. Noel felt a little delicate after yesterday’s treatment but never mind, on with the show.

The Bay Bridge

By some chance were put again by the couple who bought an RV in Los Angeles four years ago and they were now going to drive from West to Eat and back again. So it was good to chat with them but the other two couples on the table hardly joined in so it was great to just chat with people who like travel with the occasional risk.

We were called to get of the ship at 0930 and walked down in to the terminal and pointed out our baggage to this big black porter who then whisked us through and found a taxi for us. We passed lots of what we considered elderly folks dressed very nicely in uniforms who, it appeared, gave up their time for a minimum wage for the fun of meeting people of cruise ships and helping them with any questions.

From our bedroom window

We arrived at the Scarlet Huntingdon Hotel on Knob Hill at around 10.00 and to early for our room which would be ready in half an hour sir. One hour later we got a different room and its nice with a great view over the city. We had a little rest and then walked down the hill and found a great ‘America Diner’ where we enjoyed tomato soup and a BLT with Jennifer having a Club sandwich and were both quite full after and turned down the ice cream.

The weather is really lovely, bright and sunny and about 19 degrees, so great to walk about. We then headed down towards Union Square and walked around the shops for a while whilst looking to purchase a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot unit but Radio Shack did not have and so eventually we gave up and would look on the web when we get back to the Hotel. By this time we had purchased our Tram passes from Walgreens and also some food for tonight’s in room dining experience.

We came part of the way on the tram but did not worry about photos as it was quite dark and dark and moving are not good for photos.

A pleasant evening ensued with Noel catching up with the BLOG, most of the post had been prepared earlier but with slow and limited and VERY EXPENSIVE Wi-Fi I gave up loading the Blogs and saved the purchased minutes to do email whilst communicating with my friends in Austin about Doctors and such like.

All the photos on our Phanfare blog are now up to date and can be seen by following this link.

Phanfare USA trip

We are planning a bus tour tomorrow and will look to do Alcatraz Jail on Monday.