December 15, 2011

                                                                           DAY #4

We decided to do another walk today in the Presidio. Because of all the construction taking place there, the original walk had to be altered and the park ranger suggested an appropriate route. We included the Palace of Fine Arts because of the close proximity to the Presidio.

                      Some of the views of the Golden Gate Bridge were the nicest along Crissy Field.

                We had hot chocolate at the Warming Hut and then headed back to our starting point.

                                  We ended our walk with a tour of the Disney Family Museum.
               This was the second time I've visited and I saw many things that I had missed on the first visit.

We finished the tour about 5:30 and drove to Alice's Restaurant for dinner and a nice end to Linda's visit.

December 14, 2011

DAY #3

Linda drove to Carson City, NV today to do another of her walks and to visit another state capital. She returned to San Francisco about 9:00 p.m. and we ate at the Magnolia Pub on Haight Street.

December 13, 2011

DAY #2

We decided to do another of the AVA walks in San Francisco, starting at Pier 45 and taking in some of the best sights of the City.

                                                                     Highlights included:

                                                        * Lombard Street, crookedest street

                                                                           * Coit Tower

                                         * Nob Hill - with the Fairmont Hotel and Grace Cathedral

                                                                        * Chinatown

                                                                    * Cable Car Museum

                We had a light snack at Starbucks on Fillmore and finished the walk about 4:00 p.m.


     That evening Linda attended my GGMC concert and got to meet Bill, Fred, Angela, Albert , and Doug.
                                        It was our last concert of the season and it was sold out.

Doug took this picture during intermission.

We got home about 10:30 p.m., exhausted.

December 12, 2011

LINDA'S SAN FRANCISCO VISIT

Linda arrived at SFO on Saturday evening (12-10-11) and drove to Merced, spent the night, and then drove on to Visalia to visit family members.

Yesterday, on Sunday she drove to San Francisco and arrived here about 9:00 p.m. We walked to Martin Macks on Haight Street and had dinner and watched football.

                                                                        DAY #1

Today we got up and drove to Santa Rosa for the first of two walks sponsored by AVA (American Volkssport Association of Walking Clubs) an international walking club.  We arrived at Sam's Cafe, the start of the walk, about 10:30 a.m.

An interesting highlight along the way was this house with lots of fun art objects in the yard.

                                  The Train Station had a humerous statute of Snoopy and Charlie Brown.

We visited the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center. The Peanuts cartoonist lived in this area for almost 50 years. There is a nice display of his cartoons and other memorabilia in the museum. An Ice Arena and Warm Puppy Cafe are also part of the complex.

We had lunch at Sam's Cafe, also the starting point of the trip, before heading to our second 11K walk.

The second walk was a California Golden Heritage walk through the City of Santa Rosa which started at Lucky's Supermarket.

                                                Highlights included the Luther Burbank Gardens and Home.

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                                                                   and the Courthouse Square

The last 45 minutes of our walk was in the dark, but we saw some beautiful homes nicely decorated with lights for the holidays.

                                       We had dinner at Tex Wasabi, a fun Guy Fieri restaurant in Santa Rosa.

  We drove back to San Francisco and arrived about 10:00 p.m.