8/16 West SF: Cliff House, Golden Gate Park, and Sausalito

After arriving in Oakland on Friday afternoon, I headed out to West San Francisco with Aleks and her folks. Specifically, we explored the parts of the city that Aleks and I would not have the time or means to see by ourselves.



We started out at the Cliff House, where the weather was brisk and where we saw the remains of the early 20th century old bath houses. Behind the Cliff House was the Golden Gate Park, which was filled with middle-aged joggers, a corporate picnic, and, best of all, a thriving Renaissance Fair, filled with Chaucer-loving geeks. I had never seen a Renaissance Fair; I had only heard about them in movies. Aleks and I wanted to enter the fair and make fun of the dorks in medieval garb, but the price was too expensive, so I snapped a few pictures and we moved on.

We later had lunch by the water and saw teams of young men putting their 49ers in the water, a difficult task and no doubt uncomfortable because of the cold water and wind.

Afterwards, we drove to the Golden Gate Bridge with plans to walk down it and back, but again, the weather proved to be dreadful, and the wind made it near impossible to take pictures. Seeing it was good enough.

Back in the car and out of the wind, we drove to Sausalito, a pretty and posh coastal town, where we had some ice cream, saw some ships near the docks, and more interestingly, watch a woman catch a stingray, and an odd artist who balanced rocks on top of each other. Beautiful town.