San Francisco

It’s been a busy week, but now I can catch up on relating details of my trip. After Crescent City, my next stop was San Francisco. It’s a long drive between those two, so I got into Frisco late in the evening, where I stayed in the Hilton at Fisherman’s Wharf (thank you, Priceline!) I walked around the wharf a little that evening and had dinner at one of the nice restaurants there, something like Alioto’s. Seafood seemed obligatory.

The next day, before heading south again, I visited two attractions in the Fisherman’s Wharf area. The first was the Ripley’s Believe or Not! Museum. I’ve been through Ripley’s museums before elsewhere, but this is always good for an interesting hour or two. The best part was a room where there was a rotating tube around a catwalk that made it feel as if the catwalk was moving, not the tube.

Better, that afternoon I visited a museum called the Exploratorium. This is more of a hands-on, interactive museum, where various principle of science are demonstrated through experiments you try yourself. Since this was on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday and school was out, there were a lot of kids there. It was interesting that some of the parents were very good about telling their kids to share with other kids, but would neglect to allow other, older, paying customers to take a turn. By some weird coincidence, several young boys who at various times would park themselves on an exhibit so long I’d move on without an opportunity to participate were named Jacob. Perhaps if I’d named my inner child that way?

Next to the Exploratorium is the Palace of Fine Arts, and eminently photogenic building. I didn’t have time to tour it, but I did take some pictures, such as this one below.


Palace of Fine Arts