On the 25th of February i took a night bus to San Francisco. I arrived there in the early morning of the 26th at around 8 o'clock i guess. I was really tired from the bus ride, so i went to sleep for some hours, especially, because i still felt a bit sick. I woke up again in the afternoon. I went down into the lounge, where i played some pool, with some Australian people from the hostel. In the evening, we went to a greek restaurant, where i had some nice pasta noodles.
On the next day, the 27th, i decided to make a small trip through town to the famous Golden Gate Bridge. I walked to the middle of the bridge and took loads of photos as you can see down below.
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| Golden Gate Bridge |
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| Me at the Golden Gate Bridge |
San Francisco is really a beautiful city. I really like it. There are many small shops, stores, cafes and bars. Bars where you can for example hear live music and so on. The hostel i stayed in is in a street called "Broadway". Here i have two pictures, which i took while walking along Broadway.
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| photo taken out of Broadway |
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| crossing a street in Broadway |
I stayed in San Francisco for probably almost 2 weeks, which is why i didn't write everything down exactly, and i cannot remember in detail either everything i have done. But one thing i can certainly remember is the day, we went to the Red Woods, which are not far in the north of San Francisco. Some of these trees are more than 1000 years. On the foto down below i am standing infront of one of the oldest which is probably about 1300 years old!
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| me infront of a 1300 old red wood tree |
Someone once told me that if you see an old and big gree you should give it a hug, because then the the tree would live longer. So i decided to give this approx. 1300 old tree a hug, as seen on the next photo ;).
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| me huggin the approx. 1300 year old "Parson Jones" |
I saw some more big trees. The following foto shows how the tree looks like if you look up to the top from the the ground , standing right next to it.
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| tree as seen from the ground |
Officially you are not allowed to touch or get closer than 2 to 3 meters to the oldest trees. But there were some big old trees were they didn't have any signs which forbade this. So i hugged another tree, which i found on the way :) .
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| me hugging another red wood tree |
Some of these trees were emty inside, because a fire had burned out the inside of the tree. As someone told us this doesn't really affect the tree, because the inside of the tree is dead material anyway. The only thing which really is alive is the outside of the tree: the bark and so on. This seems to be the reason why most of these trees, which had a hole inside were still alive and growing leaves. Some trees, and the holes inside the tree were so big, that at least 5 persons would fit inside as you can see on the next picture!
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| some of my mates standing inside of a red wood tree |
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| me right after leaving the red wood tree - looking confused |
In order to get to the red wood trees i had taken a tour bus, which, on the way back, drove along the west coast of the states. So on the way back we stopped at some nice cliffs. Where some of my mates took this picture of me.
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| me on the West Coast of the USA on the way back from the Red Woods |
During my last days in San Francisco i went to the so called "Haight Street" in San Francisco, which is officaly some kind of Hippie Street. The Street looks very colorful and there are many small and nice shops in this street. On of these shops was selling all kind of different T-Shirts with funny printings on the front. I let my mate take a picture infront of this T-Shirt wall.
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| The Haight Street in San Francisco |
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| Me infront of the T-Shirt Wall in a shop in Haight Street |
After our visit of Haight street we went to the Park in San Francisco, which was really nice, because people were playing drums there. In the Park we ate a burrito which we had bought in a small Mexican Shop in Haight Street. This Burrito was the best and biggest Burrito, which i had ever had - and also the cheapest! It was actually also the first one i ever had. Quite a good combination.
