San Francisco
Was in San Francisco for a week, checked out all the usual tourist stuff. Its really a nice city. Well nice architecture, city lay out, not so nice are the crazy and homeless people which seem to be around every corner. The highlights were hanging on the side of the cable cars, walking across the Golden Gate Bridge, visiting the quaint little town Sausalito, and visiting Alcatraz.
We went to the cable car museum and learnt how those things work around the city. There are cables running around the city, and the drivers of the cable cars control them by using the levers to grip the cables. The tighter the grip, the faster the cars are being dragged along with the moving cables under the surface of the roads. I believe the cables move at about 9mph. It’s fascinating to find out how they run on such a simple concept. And such an environmentally friendly concept.
The tour on Alcatraz was amazing. The tour guide said it best, “people visit Alcatraz have a kind of morbid curiosity about how others have suffered”. I know I certainly do. Just being there, looking in the cells, stepping into a few, hearing how prison life was, and feeling the cold chill from the surrounding waters, I’ve learnt for a fact that I’m 200% positive that I would never survive in prison.
While I was in San Francisco, I kept trying to think whether I’ve been there before. I know I’ve been there for like a day, when we had to catch a flight at night, and we walked around Chinatown during the day. But the rest of the city looked and felt so familiar that I want to say I’ve been there for longer than a day. But I seriously cant think when I have, if I have, been there… its funny how a place can feel so familiar but you don’t have any more specific memories of it
We went to the cable car museum and learnt how those things work around the city. There are cables running around the city, and the drivers of the cable cars control them by using the levers to grip the cables. The tighter the grip, the faster the cars are being dragged along with the moving cables under the surface of the roads. I believe the cables move at about 9mph. It’s fascinating to find out how they run on such a simple concept. And such an environmentally friendly concept.
The tour on Alcatraz was amazing. The tour guide said it best, “people visit Alcatraz have a kind of morbid curiosity about how others have suffered”. I know I certainly do. Just being there, looking in the cells, stepping into a few, hearing how prison life was, and feeling the cold chill from the surrounding waters, I’ve learnt for a fact that I’m 200% positive that I would never survive in prison.
While I was in San Francisco, I kept trying to think whether I’ve been there before. I know I’ve been there for like a day, when we had to catch a flight at night, and we walked around Chinatown during the day. But the rest of the city looked and felt so familiar that I want to say I’ve been there for longer than a day. But I seriously cant think when I have, if I have, been there… its funny how a place can feel so familiar but you don’t have any more specific memories of it
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