Be sure to wear a flower in your hair :D

San Francisco is a wonderous place! I arrived at practically midnight, got my bags and went outside to hail my first ever yellow cab! (Very exciting stuff you know!) I didn't sleep much that night and in the morning was up early to go and explore! I found a great big health food shop nearby and they made me a humus, avocado and alfalfa sandwich with tofu! Utter yum! Then I went back to the hostel to wake some friends so we could go and explore! Most of the day was spent around the Haight Ashbury district, and we had a small picnic in a big park full of people who wanted to sell us mushrooms and bubble hash (what evr that is?)

The next night I found a goth bar four blocks from where I was staying so I decided to go it alone....Although when I got there I asked the dude on the door if I was in the right place....He said:

'No, this is a transvestite stripper night'

'Hummmm, well the poster said there was a goth night here?'

'Oh yeah, I'm not sure where that is, somewhere round the corner maybe....We have strippers on at 11 & 12...'

'OK, well thanks..........'

And I walked off....Not quite what I had in mind if I'm honest...So I went looking for another bar......I found one, it had many motorbikes outside.....No girls inside though...Hmmmmm. And outside a poster with a half naked guy on it and a phone number.....I think I can safely say that I found the gay district o_O So off I went a few more blocks up and eventually did find a bar that seemed to be more to my liking. The barmaid was so drunk, but chatty and very funny! After my first drink she asked me what I did back home (sometimes its easier to said barman then blood bike controller) so I said barman. She replied with, oh in that case would you serve that guy over there as I can't see anymore! So I served this guy and charged him some money and used the till, it was all very funny indeed!

The rest of San Francisco was just as much fun! I went to the horse races on dollar day with Rachel (a girl I had met at the animal park in Bolivia) and Rana (a girl I had met in the hostel in SF) and I also went to have a glorious picnic with Rana, Megan & her friends.

The next stage is a 987 mile Harley Ride up the west coast to Seattle :)