Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Day 14- Savioring the last moments on the coast

Woke up leisurely from our $170 hotel room, but were hot to trot to enjoy day 2 in San Fran. I had come up with the idea of Kate renting a bike and me doing my long run for efficiencies sake- I was hoping for 20, and it could be a good way to view the city. We rent a bike for cheap ($15) from the sports basement(?) right near Golden Gate and took off. The first stretch was across Golden Gate and back. Cool, but extremely crowded. Next, we headed to Golden Gate Park via a bike route in the Presidio, hilly, but nothing horrible. Golden Gate was cool, we did a loop in there and headed back the same way. The last stretch was along the beach at Crissy Field going toward Fisherman's Wharf. Very crowded, but at least a good surface and flat. It ended up being a solid experience!

I was pumped about driving across the Bay Bridge...
For lunch, we had looked up a Dim Sum place in the Richmond neighborhood(?) to find out that it looked mainly like takeout. We talked to a couple there who said it was awesome, and there were 3 restaurants side by side that were all by the same owners. We cherry picked our way down (place #3 gave me way too much) and ended up with a meal not really dim sum (I didn't see the assortment in the last place that we didn't stop at), but still really good Chinese Food.

Waiting for food to digest, we hit up the aquarium. Not awesome, Monterrey and Boston were way bigger, but decent to check out. Driving to get there was absolutely awful. I probably could have done better on foot. We still weren't super hungry, so I looked up another brewery: Cellarmaker Brewing. Also good beer. No dinner yet, though Kate wanted a coffee, so we found a coffee shop and figured we should just take off and put some road behind us.

It's hard to admit this, but dinner was the best of the trip and found via Kate on yelp at some roadside takeout place in Sacramento. Korean BBQ fusion Tacos. They were amazing. The guys working were cool too. If you ever find yourself on Interstate 80, it is absolutely worth a stop.

Vitals:
Miles: 135
Birds: N/A
Plates: N/A

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