Sunday, Sep 12, 2010

Morning started with breakfast at Denny’s and then a walk around Fisherman’s Wharf until we caught our van at Pier 43 ½ for the 3-hour Movie Tour.  The tour was excellent with Chris (the driver) and Paul (the narrator).  There have been 90 movies made in San Francisco over the years – the tour was supposed to drive by where 55 of them were made (or parts of the movies were shot).  The van had a TV where a short clip of the movie was shown and then paused to point out a landmark as we drove by the landmark – very well laid out.  One of the stops on the tour was in Presidio of Golden Gate and we got some excellent photos of the Golden Gate bridge.  After the tour we walked down to Pier 39, which was very crowded on the beautiful Sunday afternoon.  We watched the famous sea lions, had some Ben Jerry’s and purchased some souvenirs.  We mostly watched the people like Gold Man and Silver Man and other tourists with their Alcatraz t-shirts and fanny packs walking around.  Some went back to the hotel and Lynn, Paul and David had a beer at Hooters (who overcharged us for our beers).  The sign out front had Heffeweizen for $3.50 but they charged us $6.00 because it was Sunday and the sign was for Mon-Fri.  We walked over to the Harley-Davidson store to pick up a Harley shirt for Lynn.  That is always a requirement when visiting a new city.  Walking back to hotel we spotted Chicken Man, who is another homeless man that carries around a live chicken with him. Sometimes the chicken walks around and sometimes he carries it around on his head.  Dinner was at Cioppino’s with excellent Italian food at a decent price.  All went back to hotel except Lynn and Paul who stopped in at a bar to have a beer with the younger crowd who were shooting pool, texting and singing rap music we could not understand.  Making us feel old, we had one Hefaweizen and left.