After our afternoon on the wharf, pigging on some seafood snacks,
we decided to leave in the car and tour a bit while simultaneously looking for a hotel with a vacancy…. Driving up and down steep hills, enjoying the crisp, cool air, it occurred to us to look for Lombard Street.
That is the world famous, winding road in San Francisco, peppered with wonderful foliage and homes. I am all about beautiful plants and landscapes, so we went!
It was a very touristy thing to do, but yes, we got out of our cars and joined the masses collected along the street to take photos.
My favorite flower is the hydrangea, and there were plenty so I was in heaven!
Side note: remember the blog about the Pink & Pepper heels I just bought ? I’d purchased them with our trip in mind, and don’t they look great?!? I got so many compliments when I wore them. I do think I was the only person in SF without a sweatshirt on, and people were looking as if I was a Martian, but oh well !
I was perfectly comfortable in my black tiered shorts, flowing polka dot top, blazer and scarf. This entire outfit was from Forever 21, and the scarf was from Macy’s. The gold bag is Michael Kors and of course, the shoes are Pink & Pepper. (Which you can’t see in this picture, due to the photographer 😉 LOL )
After the Lombard Street event, we continued on to China Town…which was interesting and funny. My husband loves hole-in-the-wall Asian restaraunts , so we stopped into one eating establishment… (and yes, we did just eat a bite on the wharf, but hey, that was two hours ago!) but we were there only briefly….and I won’t go into the story, just noting that I think our hole-in-the-wall experience cured him of his addiction.
We went to various C-Town shops, but by this point, we really needed to focus on a place to stay for the night.
Every single hotel was booked, due to the America’s Cup race being in town. So we got extremely lucky when we happened by a motel, that had only one room left!
It was only about 7 minutes from the wharf area, had a Walgreen’s next door (for snacks and all the little things you forgot to pack) and a Mel’s Diner and an Ihop just down the block for breakfast in the morning!
(to be continued)
September 1, 2012
–SDS
