Wed 2nd May 2012
Hard to believe the end of the trip has arrived but here it is.
Tomorrow we return to reality and start remembering the last six months!
It's been a real adventure.
65 Hotels
13 Trains
16 Flights
35 Buses
Tuesday 1st May 4.20pm
Went running in Golden Gate park this morning, the cross country sections were v interesting with hippies emerging randomly from the bushes or sleeping in the middle of the trail!
San Fran is quite a place, we have never seen anything like it, an awful lot of sad stories here, we have seen a lot of poor souls pacing in circles and shouting at things unseen.
The sixties are still alive here but there can't be many hippies staying in the Haight at $3000 a month for a 2 bed apartment.
There are a lot of homeless street kids who gravitated here after reading Tom Wolfes "Electric Cool Aid Acid Test". That was 40 years ago but San Francisco still carries the psychedlic flame with regular Goldengate Park parties and even Timothy Leary remembrance parties.
The Haight Ashbury has become very gentrified but still has something special, a great place to spend a sunny afternoon.
Sunday 29th April
Tomorrow we return to reality and start remembering the last six months!
It's been a real adventure.
65 Hotels
13 Trains
16 Flights
35 Buses
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| Last day, last pic, last blog ; ) |
Tuesday 1st May 4.20pm
Went running in Golden Gate park this morning, the cross country sections were v interesting with hippies emerging randomly from the bushes or sleeping in the middle of the trail!
San Fran is quite a place, we have never seen anything like it, an awful lot of sad stories here, we have seen a lot of poor souls pacing in circles and shouting at things unseen.
The sixties are still alive here but there can't be many hippies staying in the Haight at $3000 a month for a 2 bed apartment.
There are a lot of homeless street kids who gravitated here after reading Tom Wolfes "Electric Cool Aid Acid Test". That was 40 years ago but San Francisco still carries the psychedlic flame with regular Goldengate Park parties and even Timothy Leary remembrance parties.
The Haight Ashbury has become very gentrified but still has something special, a great place to spend a sunny afternoon.
Sunday 29th April
Spend yesterday in Berkeley. Great to see the famous University Campus which dominates the whole town. The surrounding hills and parks are amazing, the place has a great energy about it.
Today we took our final journey of the whole trip to San Francisco! What a feeling to roll over the Bay Bridge and drop the hire car off. That's it, our last destination, "the end", no more buses or trains and two flights left to get home.
Coming over the bridge it really started to sink in, our routine of the last 6 months is about to change massively.
Spent the afternoon exploring the Haight Ashbury and relaxing in Golden Gate Park under a blue sky!
