Unfortunately, Lilly's health has not been the best the last few weeks. So, with her delicate health and the fact that the frequent recent trips to the vet had kind of tapped the checking account, we thought it was best to forego the trip. As part of the trip, we were trying to hook up with Eric's nephew mark for a long over due visit. We had needed to cancel on him once before, and we didn't want to do this again. So, after we consulted Bing Maps and finding that a ride to San Francisco would only take 1 hour and 45 minutes, we thought we would make a day trip out of it to San Francisco. And what a wonderful trip we had. Eric made a quick trip to the Shelter on Friday morning to check on the dogs in the Chako rescue program. Once he was home, we were able to give each of the dogs a peanut butter laden Kong and head to San Fran. Being that it was mid day, on a Friday, the trip wasn't much more than the expected amount of time. It didn't matter much if we traveled via 80 the entire way or if we went via Marin county, so we opted for the approach from the north which would take us through the Golden Gate Bridge! :-)
Unfortunately, Lilly's health has not been the best the last few weeks. So, with her delicate health and the fact that the frequent recent trips to the vet had kind of tapped the checking account, we thought it was best to forego the trip. As part of the trip, we were trying to hook up with Eric's nephew mark for a long over due visit. We had needed to cancel on him once before, and we didn't want to do this again. So, after we consulted Bing Maps and finding that a ride to San Francisco would only take 1 hour and 45 minutes, we thought we would make a day trip out of it to San Francisco. And what a wonderful trip we had. Eric made a quick trip to the Shelter on Friday morning to check on the dogs in the Chako rescue program. Once he was home, we were able to give each of the dogs a peanut butter laden Kong and head to San Fran. Being that it was mid day, on a Friday, the trip wasn't much more than the expected amount of time. It didn't matter much if we traveled via 80 the entire way or if we went via Marin county, so we opted for the approach from the north which would take us through the Golden Gate Bridge! :-)
Once we got to the San Francisco side, we went down to Fort Point, a fort built prior to the Civil war in order to protect the San Francisco bay. This fort is an amazing trip back in time in that it stands pretty much the way it did, back in it's pre-civil war era. There are many fascinating displays to check out. Including the various canons as well as the canon balls, firing ports and even the powder room! It was all very cool! Fort Point is right near the Chrissie field area as well as the San Francisco National cemetery. Many of the buildings in the Chrissie field and presidio areas sit pretty much as they stood back when the military populated this area. Many of the old officers quarters have been upgraded and re-purposed into commercial operations for small businesses. Quite the 'Peace Dividend'!
After we left the presidio area, we went and drove around down town San Francisco, saw a cable car and also checked out Lombard street. There isn't much that makes us nervous about places to take the motorhome, but Lombard street is one place we have no desire to try out our driving prowess, even if we had brought the moho.
We left San Francisco with an intent to visit there again. There is so much to see and enjoy in that wonderful city and with Living in Sacramento, we're an our closer than we use to be when we lived in Amador county.
Happy Camping!
Eric and Carol
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So sorry to hear about Lilly. It's hard when our pups don't feel good or get older. Almost everything we do is worked around them. But sure glad you got to go to the city. I remember the good times I had there when I had a training class. We walked Lombard Street and there is no way I'd go down or up that with a MH. Not sure I want to do it with the truck.
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