Blazing Saddles
Today we hired a tandem bike from a company called Blazing Saddles and rode around to the Golden Gate bridge. The bike hire is extremely popular here – you see hundreds of people riding around on these bikes all the time.
The bridge itself wasn’t THAT spectacular (I prefer the Sydney bridge) but the view from the bridge blows everything else out of the water. San Francisco bay is massive – and the view of the city from the bridge is great.
Once over the bridge, we made our way up to a little town called Sausalito which is a very picturesque little yuppie town. It is home to the Redwood trees which are supposed to be the tallest in the world. We tried to get up to the Old Mill Valley (where the trees are) – but in the end got a bit lost and had to turn back.
Part of the bike hire pass is a ferry ride from Sausalito back to Fisherman’s Wharf. Here is the view of Sausalito as we left – some low clouds were rolling in and down the hills as the ferry pulled away – it was quite a beatiful sight to see.
By this time, our bums were killing us – and my knee was sore from hitting the handlebars on the tandem bike all the time. But we got there – and then made the massive trike back up a ridiculous amount of hills back to our hostel.
All in all, we biked about 40kms and walked about 8km’s. Bloody knackered.
For dinner we had Subway – they have a $5 footlong deal at the moment for all subs so we have been making regular use of that lately.
Tomorrow is a rest day – we plan to get up and watch the rugby through the internet @ 5am and then just take it easy for the rest of the day. Well deserved I think! So likely that there wont be a new blog post tomorrow.
Leeane