I left my camping gear in San Francisco

Finally, after a fabulous trip up the coast we make it to San Francisco!  A destination that has been top of Stuart's wish list for years.

We drive to Belmont where our friend Audra lives and return the rental car.  We have a couple of nights staying at Audra's house.  As a thank you for having us to stay, we lavish her with gifts.  Tent, sleeping, bags, mattress, camp stove and many more luxury items.  She was so happy with all of our quality goods!

She takes us to a music festival in a square in Redwood City, that happens every Friday night in the summer (March to November, or something like that).  Do these people know how lucky they are?

Saturday, and Audra plays chauffeur for the day.  Stuart is so happy not to be driving for once, but I take Gladys with me just to be on the safe side!

We get to see all the sights of San Francisco that would be hard to get to without a car.  The presidio, Sutro baths, Golden Gate park, Half moon bay (so pretty) and the "other" side of Golden Gate Bridge.

After, two nights with Audra we head to a hotel in downtown San Francisco.  A very swanky place.  It's so swanky its address is 1 Nob Hill.

I offer them secondhand Walmart goods as payment for the room.  Unfortunately, this doesn't fly and we blow all our camping savings on this hotel!

We are very lucky that this hotel is located on one of the Cable Car routes, so every day we shuttle around San Francisco using this Cable car line and the F line trams.  I manage to take what must be one of the worst selfies ever, when riding the boards on the cable car.

This is more like it!

One of the things I had been looking forward to was driving down Lombard Street.  The "crookedest"street in the world.  I was dismayed to find that as an experiment they had just decided to close the street to traffic. Undeterred, we decided to walk up the street!  It's a fabulous view from the top, was great fun to walk up (and down) the street and I hope the city continues the experiment.

We spend a lot of time walking around San Francisco enjoying the blue skis and sunshine.  (On the day we left thick fog arrived, is it wrong to feel secretly smug about this?!)

We meet up for a coffee with Stuart's niece Leanne and friend Katy, who are on a Trek America trip and happen to be in San Francisco at the same time as we are. We have seen their photos on Facebook, we now know the correct way to pose for a photograph!

It's our 7th wedding anniversary during our visit to San Francisco.  The concierge at our hotel manages to get us a booking at a lovely restaurant overlooking bay bridge.  One of the advantages of staying in a swanky hotel!

We hire bicycles for the day so that we can cycle over Golden Gate Bridge.  Someone is feeling patriotic today!

We have a wonderful seafood lunch in Sausalito and then catch the ferry back across the bay, along with all the other cyclists, that we had to navigate around as we crossed the bridge.

The swanky hotel has a fabulous cocktail bar, called the Top of the Mark, with great views over the city.  Audra and her husband Dave join us for a drink.  Stuart and Dave have serious boys conversations.  Audra and I take Selfies!