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The view you would expect.

Staying at a hotel in down town San Francisco, so the view from the window is what you could expect, isn't it?

It is early in the morning and the corpses are getting ready to seize the day.The plan for today is a walk through the city streets to the golden gate bridge, to finally see this thing. After the days in Sun Diego, it is a bit more chilly here and I think we have overestimated the californian summer a bit when the bags were packed for our trip here, as there is a slightly lack of warm stuff to find in them, and if we are freezing here in San Fran, how are we going to feel when go further to the north, to Portland and Seattle?

They really do have steep streets in San Francisco.

The locals keeps telling us the best and less steep streets uphill in "Down town", which here is a bit misleading.

San Francisco trolley and steep streets.

Breakfast at "the Cheese Shop" San Diego

CheeseShop

Hurray, it is Catrionas B-day today and we are leaving San Diego to go to San Francisco and the golden gate bridge, maybe we will meet Michael Douglas and Karl Malden, racing up and down the steep streets, chasing some villain.
From the hotel at the outskirts, we drown downtown to a famous breakfast place called "the Cheese Shop".
In a dinning guide we'd found it a couple of days earlier as located on 4th street, so we went to the address, just to find that it had moved to another location in down town San Diego, the Horton Hotel.
Found that as well, so on this day the hotel breakfast was skipped, the backpacks packed and we went to the Cheese Shop for a different breakfast.
A good choice and a nice experience. so if visiting San Diego, go to the Horton Hotel and get you at least one breakfast in "the Cheese Shop".

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Sun Diego

"Half the fun is getting there!" is a slogan on some of the shuttle busses bringing people to and fro hotels and the conference centre here In San Diego. The company call's it self "Sun Diego" and they are not lying, the weather is absolute beautiful here in southern California. Clear blue sky, no humidity and bearable temperatures, like the best of the European summer.

First impressions of the US; well, people in general are really friendly and open, at least those who works in bars and restaurants, the portions are big and so are many of the people, you have to have a coffee in your hand all the time or some snacks and, most of all, the car is king.

Everything here is sat up for the car, and if you don't have one it is hard to get from a to b.
At pedestrian crosses you have to wait for a long time before the signal that you can cross lights up, and when it does you have about 16 or less seconds to cross, before the big engines ignites again and they race of. Older people or disabled hasn't got a chance.

There is some busses and a tram -here called a trolley- but to commute relying on those, will cost you a lot of time. Our hotel is a bit out of town by one of the freeways that connects the different parts of the city, so basically what you have got, is some town centres spread around on a big space, and then what we in Europa would call a Motorway or carry-way is the ore connecting them.

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In the Salon at the Cosmopolitan Hotel

Wiatt Earps Cosmopolitan Hotel in old Town San Diego

San Diego ZOO

Cat @ wine

Big and bigger

New world trip 1.0

Fourteen hours on a plane from Hong Kong across the pacific ocean and absolute nackered, when finally landing in the city of Angles; Los Angeles.
Here the first ever meeting with US border control and protection. I had been a bit unsure of this meeting and didn't know how those guy's would be to approach.
Thank to the ESTA visa application program, this turned out to be a real easy procedure, so when you are from some of the "good countries" the visa application and granting is very easy.
From LA we had to take another flight, the domestic connection to San Diego from LA terminal 4. The most extreme thing at this point was the time different between Hong Kong and LA, and we had basically not moved in time, only in distance, it was now the same time as on Friday the 22. as it was when we'd left Hong Kong some 14 or 15 hours earlier on the Friday the 22.
In my country side hamlet boy imagination, I had had these funny thoughts about my first ever visit to the US, thoughts that I would feel very different there, and that everything here would look like on television, well some of that was a bit like in TV and then again not. The airport terminal we entered after the border control and immigration stuff, terminal 4, was boring and seemed completely confusing, badly organized and outdated. This can be caused that we are used to Hong Kong, which maybe has one of the best and most efficient airports in the world.
The connecting flight to San Diego I hardly remember, as I dropped in and out of sleep for most of the 28 minutes flying time.
I first got my conscience back when the guy in the seat next to my ticked me on the shoulder a pointed out of the window and told me that this was downtown San Diego.


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