Monday, July 11, 2011

Day 5 - San Francisco City Tour


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We leave the hotel in Monterey at around 8:30am and drive for about 2 hours to San Francisco. On the way we travel through Silicon Valley, where a lot of the major tech companies are located like Google, Facebook, Apple and Intel. We also pass Stanford University before getting to Treasure Island in San Francisco. From there we have a wonderful view over the skyline of the City By the Bay. On the city tour we see: Moscone Convention Center, SFMOMA, Union Square, China Town, North Beach, Coit Tower, Washington Square, Lunch at Fisherman's Wharf, Civic Center, City Hall, Japan Center, St. Mary's Cathedral, Alamo Square, Haight Street, Castro District, La Maison Bleu, Twin Peaks, Golden Gate Park. We get to the hotel around 4:30 pm.