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After arriving in San Francisco from Larkspur we hireda couple of bikes from Blazing saddles at Pier41 on Fisherman’s Wharf to “Bike the Bridge to Sausalito” an eight mile ride across the Golden Gate. Within a couple of minutes of leaving Pier 41 we turned back and brought a sweatshirt each from a souvenir shop, the temperature was so changeable and we only had T-shirts and shorts on. It proved to be the right decision as the wind was quite chilly on top of bridge.
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| New hoody |
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| New hoody |
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| Call the Samaratans before jumping! |
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| View from Marin County |
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| Deli sandwiches! |
Once across we headed down in to Sausalito, a quaint little town on the waterfront with a large marina. We brought homemade deli sandwich’s and sat by the bay to eat them, which proved to be a little awkward in the wind. Deli sandwich's became a lunchtime favourite of mine throughout our trip. After a look around Sausalito we had ice cream at Lappert's before getting the ferry back to San Francisco, it was jam packed full of bikes, obviously biking the bridge is a very popular excursion.
That evening we wandered over the freeway into San Rafael ending up in BJ's, a large restaurant/sports bar and with it being Friday evening it was packed. Something that I discovered in California is that restaurants and bars encourage you to try their local beers here I tried Light Switch Ale and Lagunitas, both were very nice, what I would describe as modern beers. The breweries seem to be experimenting with and adding new ingredients similar to the UK, like Adnams. And I thought that the yanks were all about Budweiser and Michelob! The food at BJ’s was top banana and I noticed that after less than a week of American food my clothes were starting to feel a little tighter!
The playlist
Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison - when we arrived back in Larkspur there were several outside caterers cooking and bar-b-cueing foods from around the world and also a band playing this song.
Rappers Delight by The Sugarhill Band - so we resisted the food and found our way back to the car. We were cruising up the freeway back to San Rafael with the hood down and the early evening sun beating down on us when this tune came on the radio.
