Monday, September 6, 2010

San Fran!!!

We wake up an hour after check out and scramble to grab our gear. Then we drive through Oakland and over the bay bridge then we see the golden gate bridge very clearly. Which is important, remember that for later. So we get to the HI (hosteling international) downtown san francisco and check in. I am a member of YHA hostels and have stayed at them in Australia which is affiliated with HI. So the hottie from Minnesota at the front desk gave me a discount. We leave our bags since we have to park the car about two blocks away. We pull in and it is 20 bucks a night, makes staying at a hostel not so cheap. We walk back and go to the room where meet george a japanese guy who lives in Vancouver. Then Jorge gets a little lost and when he gets back wants nothing to do with p90x but finally decides to man up. After the workout we eat and get ready to go party it up in San Fran. We ask around and are told Polk st. has a bunch of bars so that is where we head. The first bar we go into is dead we pound one (captain for me) and leave. Then we go to a bar that is a little less of a dive meet the hottest girl in california, take some shots drink a bunch. Then we ended up at some goth bar on the corner grab a drink and see that there is live music upstairs. I forgot to mention that it was 95 degrees outside which is very hot for san fran. So when we get upstairs it is so hot i instantly start sweating and, you know what, it was just not our seen anyway. I think after that we hit up one more bar before closing then we walked around a little. Right before 2am we grab 22 from the liquor store. Keep walking until Jorge walks into a "massage parlor" you know his back has been hurting. So i go inside and sit down the owner wants me to take this girl but i just wanted to smoke and drink. So i said no i'm good he told me to get the fuck out. So i left and stood on the corner by the liquor store and hit the one hitter. Then this black guy about my age comes up and asks me for a dollar, i tell him i have no money but he can hit the weed. So we smoke a little and there are a bunch of late night drinkers and bums on this corner by this time and i am wasted so i could careless. I meet this guys sister when finally Jorge comes back and we start walking. When this same guy i smoked with again asks me for a dollar, i yell back no money. So he hits me in the leg with his cane. I get in his bum face and tell him to fuck off i just smoked with him. Right before bust him in the face this other street guy comes over and gets his boy. Man i have not been that pissed the whole trip. After that we smoke on the way back to HI and call it a night.
I wake up pretty hungover to all this yelling outside like a chant. So i look outside pissed and there is strike going on at the Hilton across the street, unbelievable. Jorge is already gone, i find him in the kitchen but i have no groceries so i go to the jack in the box downstairs. After that i walk around downtown a little then i see my favorite receptionist is back so i ask her about this 49 mile driving tour of san fran that khaiman told me about. She gives me a map i get jorge and we get the truck. We decide we are not going to hit all 49 but definitely the major ones and honestly i don't remember all of the ones we saw. The driving tour is great for a hangover no hiking and smoking the whole time. City Hall was real impressive and the library across the street is where we packed the first bowl. Then the gates of china town which we drove through. Then a tower, forgot the name. A left turn, hard to do in san fran, and we are at another point Lombard street. The road is so straight down that it has to have switchbacks in it. After that we go to the best stop fisherman's warf which has like 11 points of the tour right there. First we wanted to see Alcatraz, so we head down pier 39 and before we get to the end we see a huge amount of sea lions on this dock. There where so many we get some picks and one swims right by us, sure don't see that on the east coast. We go to the end where you can see alcatraz and it is a crazy rock, i can't believe they built anything on it let alone a prison. One thing i didn't know, i thought it was further away from shore. I think someone really desperate could swim that but it is the freezing pacific ocean. We watch a little street dancing. Then we start to drive to the golden gate bridge. As we are driving we notice it getting foggy very quickly. We get to the golden gate park and the wind is kicking the fog is rolling in. We get out and you can't even see the bridge only a little red painted steel. We actually go walk on it thinking we could see better but i could barely see 5 feet in front of me. So we get out of the freezing wind as the sun is going down. It is amazing how fast the temperature drops out here. It went from shorts weather to coat weather in less then an hour. We get some food from the safeway the grocery store and jorge decides to make fajitas. The HI is real nice brand new modern kitchens almost looks like a restaurant kitchen. We get some good food finally then go to the movie theater, yes a hostel with a movie theater. Chill in there until this girl comes to lock it up and kicks us out. I try to make small talk with her and she ignored me. Jorge says i don't think she likes you much i say maybe she doesn't like you. When he informs i pissed her off being a smart ass last night when she was at the front desk and i don't remember any of this but i do believe it. Roll one up and walk to this city park near our place. Sit out there and smoke for a while. Then off to bed since we have to check out at 10am. Sux we have to leave so early and only two days in san fran but i feel like we did a lot with our time. Here people don't judge and good thing because there are some crazy californian's in the most liberal city in the U.S.

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