SanFrancisco 6

Oct.31

It was the last day of our travel.
Yesterday, we have stayed at downtown SanFrancisco.

I went around downtown in the morning.
It was misty day as you know about SanFrancisco.

At the SFO for return, I lined up enough room line at the security check.
However it had new divices which I saw for the first time.
My wife knew it.
She told me she saw it on TV.
So, we avoided and changed the line which didn't have it.

The divice is that it can detect and see the naked body.
It makes his or her clothes transparent.
I think male embarrassed more than female
because your important body part detectes clearly.
I hear the face is blurred for privacy.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/rightsandfreedoms/a/fullbodyscan.htm
http://www.securityinfowatch.com/Detection+Systems/sfo-unveils-new-whole-body-imaging-scanner

I wanted to go to the place which Amtrak goes ordinary street.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KadNlr6R1NY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSJUp_VDFjY&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPhQiRlHHBs&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCUE2OAQt4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oX7tWE5bF8&NR=1

SanFrancisco 5

Oct.30

I could drive around in Berkeley area in this day,

so I went to the Berkeley Bowl Market Place which sold organic stuff,
and La Farine French Bakery which was so good.

Then I was headed for SanFrancisco.


breakfast

reasonable price

the organic supermarket

http://www.berkeleybowl.com/

rise sushi


many kind of olives

La Farine French Bakery

tasted very nice

http://www.lafarine.com/

Peets Coffee and tea

http://www.peets.com/

I stopped by Sausalito, head-on position of SanFrancisco downtown.





nice to walk along

Halloween season

We went back to SanFrancisco.

Victorian architectures

Alamo Square

Civic Center

Asian Art Museum

Intercontinental Hotel

see-through shower room

near Union Square

There were too many Starbucks and Walgreens in SanFrancisco.

I like American fashion brand Ruehl in Westfield SanFrancisco Centre.

You can go there directly from Powell St. through underground.

Both the shop's looks and the fashion itself were quite snazzed-up.
http://westfield.com/sanfrancisco/find/detail/store?category=1987&retailer=28962
http://www.ruehl.com/ruh/index.html

There was a nice food court in Westfield SanFrancisco Centre.

I went a Vetnamy restaurant and orderd a catfish plate which I didn't know well.

I couldn't eat.

SanFrancisco 4

Oct.29

Well,

This day, I was very tired, so I woke up late in the morning.

Using bus, we went to UC Berkeley.

I wanted to get the transfer ticket for free as downtown in SanFrancisco,

but they required 50c. more.

University librarys


quite big bums as compared with Japanese's ones

the first pages of world news papers

You can read Asahishinbun.

Sometimes you need bike in the campass.

It is very nice area on the north by UC Berkeley.

the yum-yum restaurant　“Chez Panisse”

Taste was very good.

You need to ask your wallet.

http://www.chezpanisse.com/intro.php

conjugated central reservation for lunch

Japanese don't have this idea.

a bakery

Using BART, I went to SanFrancisco downtown.

Wow! a Cable Car

This is the end of the Cable Car rail track,

so it turns around by manhandling.

around PIER 45 in Fishermans Wharf

Last time we went to PIER 39 which was famous for visiters,

but there were only obvious souvenir shops.

Here was better.

http://www.visitfishermanswharf.com/

I heard this car used to run at Milano in Italy.

a amphibian truck


Argonaut Hotel by Fishermans Wharf
http://www.argonauthotel.com/

.

Ghirardelli Square

They sell super-sweet brownys.


sharp slope

see Alcartraz Island over there

Lombard Street

from inside of the Cable Car

He is a Cable Car's driver.

He asked us not to stand up behind him,

because he used his entire body for breaking to stop or getting forward


For closing the Bay Bridge,

we went a long way round to get back to Berkeley.

Golden Gate Bridge

crab cocktail

It was very good.

I recomend you this restaurant for dinner.

Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto, near Berkeley station of Amtrak

http://www.mccormickandschmicks.com/Locations/berkeley-california/FourthSt.aspx