Today we took the bus to Golden Gate Park. We planned to spend the day in the park and at the Golden Gate bridge. This part of San Francisco is actually larger than downtown, but our map was condensed so that what 2.5 miles looked twice as big as 4 miles..
We started off in the Japanese Tea Garden (free on Mondays before
10am!). We wandered around for a little while and then had some tea.
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| Pagoda in the Japanese Tea Garden |
The weather was gorgeous, and being in such a quiet place in the morning was quite peaceful.
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| Japanese Tea Garden |
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| Japanese Tea Garden |
From there, we wandered west through the park toward the ocean. We saw a herd of bison (yep! in a park, in San Francisco..), many ponds and lakes, and along some nice trails.
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| Windmill at the west end |
We came out near this windmill and then headed straight for a gorgeous beach..
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| Gorgeous beach! |
From there, we wandered east to find some food, and eventually a bus to take us to the glorious Golden Gate Bridge.
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| Bridge! |
I'm still not over how gorgeous this bridge was, how amazing the weather was for our trip.. or how good it felt to be away from home in February!
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| More bridge. |
We walked under, hoping to be able to walk across on the west side of the bridge (to get photos of bridge + city) but for some reason it was closed.
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| Underside.. |
We walked to the first tower on the east side of the bridge. It was pretty busy..
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| Cables. |
Gorgeous though. As awesome as it was to see this with clear blue skies, I think that it would be pretty neat to see it covered in fog, too. Next time, perhaps!
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