We left the hotel this morning after being told it would be raining and that we were too far away to walk to the Golden Gate bridge, armed with a map and a deadline of 2pm for our parking spot. First off we were hungry and didn’t know where to get food so we just started walking, and thinking that we’d find something. I finally asked someone and they pointed us in the right direction.
We had 2 eggs, toast and a foot tall glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. $19.00 gulp… However, it was the absolute best toast and eggs I’ve ever had, so we moved on. The girl at the place told us also that we couldn’t possibly walk to the Golden Gate, but armed with my supreme power of being hard headed I was convinced that we could. I had a map of the streets and it just didn’t look that far away.
My conclusion was right on, however, I didn’t not know about the 300 steps straight down that would have to be navigated in order to get there. The bridge was not far away and we got some awesome pictures, even witnessed the after effects of what happens when someone jumps off. Oh, and some very funny pictures of me getting swamped by a huge wave hitting the rocks. My wife wouldn’t get close enough so I let her drive the camera while I bravely stood where no man before me had been. Problem was, while I knew I’d be getting wet, I had no idea how much so. We had been there for 10 minutes and watched the waves hitting the rocks and I thought I had things planned out where we could get good pictures and me still be able to walk away fairly dry. Well, the pictures tell the rest so I’ll just let you see them for yourselves for the rest of the story. I think it was the hardest my wife and 10 other people had laughed the entire time we’ve been gone though.
Afterwards we walked the 300 steps straight up, ate lunch again at the expensive place on the return and got back to the car at exactly 2pm. Couldn’t have timed it better, although both of us were totally wiped out after our 7 hour hike. We decided we’d start driving to the Redwood Forest and stop somewhere along the way. Then we got hooked up with our friends and ended up driving 80+ through the mountains and got all the way up here to Eureka. We have 90 miles to go to get to the Forest and we’re about to start that trip now.
I was too tired to upload the images from yesterday so will try to do that tonight. Until then…
–glenn hancock