Leprechaun Kicks and a Bridge

So surfing old pics is a great way to find a story stored in the ol' memory banks. I found the photos below to go along with this little diddy. When Catherine and I traveled to Disneyland, I believe it was '06, we took Ronnie's Corolla and burned rubber the whole way (Haha kidding! Although I did manage a speeding ticket upon our departure from LA...more on that another time). The little green Corolla served us well with our tent, cook stove and Disney coupons. This was to be California on the cheap. We camped the whole way down. One of the campground's we selected was on the outskirts of San Francisco in San Rafael. It was located in a small oak woodland that looked south toward San Francisco Bay. There was beautiful vistas and really unique dune and serpentine vegetation. There was some nice walking trails all round the park and after we set up shop we went for a walk.

The location was a great jumping off point to San Fran. We crossed the bridge, that is the Golden Gate Bridge, which is amazing and impressive. We toured the fish market, China town and looked out to Alcatraz. We couldn't get out there because you had to book way in advance to get a tour. We shopped at the Bubba Gump Shrimping Co. and Catherine visited Macy's and we looked for shoes. We alos visied Lombard Street, the windiest street in the world (also very steep). We jumped on packed street cars and sailed around downtown. However we did manage to get on a street car that was too full, stalled out and started rolling backwards down one of the busy streets. The driver stopped the slide but we all had to disembark and walk. Catherine and I walked to the outdoor skating rink and marveled at the huge line up of Californian's and tourists trying to go for an incredibly packed skate. (I hate line-ups because we would have joined in the fun)

In the end Catherine performed some masterful Leprechaun kicks at our campground and I took one of my favorite pictures. California will be visited again!