We spent the night in Santa Barbara.
To get to our next location, which was Big Basin Redwood State Park (about an hour and a half south of San Francisco) we took Highway 1. Highway 1 travels along the coast in a windy and mountainous path. We stopped at some Vista Points to take pictures, and saw elephant seals at one. about 100 seals were basking in the sun on the beach. Halfway up Highway 1 the road was closed. This meant that we had to travel an hour+ south along the road we had just traveled to transfer to Highway 101.
Big Basin was unbelievable. The campsite we had was deep within the giant Sequoia forest. It was pretty cold, but we made a fire and enjoyed the night. The campsite had a definite raccoon problem. Imagine the biker gang from Mad Max except instead of gasoline, the gang of raccoons were after anything they could eat.
We spent the next day in San Francisco. So far, this is my favorite city. Everything was clean, there wasn't really a huge homeless population. We went to Fisherman's Wharf where we got lunch at Boudin Bakery. This bakery has kept the same sourdough starter for over 150 years. This means that the same lactobacillus culture has been kept alive as a colony since 1849. You can understand why it was called sourdough.
We then went to see the sea lions near pier 39. On our way to the Golden Gate Bridge. We walked halfway across the bridge and then back. We then went to a tower, the name of which slips my mind, and got a great view of the city. We ate at Sun Tung a Chinese restaurant. They brought out a very spicy cabbage disk that burned our mouths.
We stopped in Sausalito and got coffee before leaving for our hotel in Stockton, CA.
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