Today Andy and I were still a little bit sick – a combination I’m sure of cramming so many things into our days and the lovely healthy American food we’ve been eating the last week. We are still keen to use San Francisco as our rest stop so we…. went on a long bike ride!
We did sleep in first though, up at 10am and then a lazy breakfast of peanut butter and banana waffles. At 12pm we picked up our bikes for the classic Fisherman’s Wharf to Sausalito bike ride. Most of you would know that biking isn’t my strongest skill, not being a particularly sporty person and only learning to ride when I was 17! Really though, this ride was pretty easy – there are bike paths everywhere, most of it was flat and I could walk my bike up the scary hills.
The weather here continues to be perfect – 26 degrees – and the drive along the shore with bright green grass and the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance was very lovely indeed. The drive across the bridge was great, albeit very windy. The second half was particularly rewarding when all of the hard work was done and I could just glide along under the arches!
Our bike journey ended at Sausalito, a little seaside town across the San Francisco Bay. Here we had half and hour before catching the ferry back so we grabbed a freshly made burger at their highly recommended shop – nom. Soon after we were boarding the ferry with our bikes and back in Fisherman’s Wharf.
Tonight we have decided on a night in – we plan to sit on the couch and read books, do a load of washing, update our photos and blogs and just relax. Dinner was at the hostel cafe – a slice of turkey pizza and a banana muffin, looking over the bay at dusk. And now to do nothing much!
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