Based on my less than perfect math, our adventure is 42 days long. So, the completion of Day 21 means we are halfway through this grand adventure! It’s weird because we simultaneously feel like we’ve only just left home and like we’ve been gone so very long. Anyway…
We spent of Day 21 on CA1/Pacific Coast Highway, which brought us into the “Bay Area” of California, driving through Marin County, to the top of Mount Tamalpai, across the Golden Gate Bridge and into downtown San Francisco.
Another epic PCH view 
One big bridge
This part of the trip was to be the highlight of the trip for Trish, which makes the fact that she’s caught something all the more frustrating. Fever, headaches, sore throat, coughing, it’s all happening. Historically, she has beaten these things back pretty quickly so we’re hopeful that it will pass soon. We’re even more hopeful that I don’t get it as I don’t have the greatest track record for getting over those kinds of bugs. Fingers crossed.
Despite feeling like crap, T pushed through our planned “Haunted San Francisco” evening tour, which required her to be on her feet the whole time. She did well, but is now sound asleep in bed as I type this.
While on tour, a snapped a few photos. Some of these are meh, but I like night shots. 🙂
Massive Apple Store 
Mary, our tour guide 
Union Square 
St. Francis Hotel 
Speeding street car 
Lobby of St. Francis Hotel 
The Mezzanine meant that this 12 floor hotel, actually had 13 floors. Guess where the hauntings are. 
Mary telling us about the Zodiac Killer. He got away. 
Where Jim Jones found his flock 
Love this neon 
Where Dashiell Hammett, author of the Maltese Falcon, hung out. 
John’s Grill, another Dashiell hang-out. 
2nd last floor, left column. Commemorates Hammet’s detective novels.
The tour was good fun with a nice mix of San Francisco history, the macabre, and reporting on the spookier goings on in the old buildings of the Tenderloin neighbourhood.
Mary, a local entertainer and drag queen, did a great job of imparting the importance of this underprivileged neighbourhood, which had been central to the LGBTQ rights movement, into her presentation.
That was our day! Please join me in willing T a speedy recovery so that she can enjoy these days in San Francisco and before I leave you, here’s a short time lapse of yesterday’s drive through Avenue of the Giants.