Dont jump off the bridge, just bike it!

So i woke up early today cuz my back was hurting and decided that i would bike the bay. I just had to strech a bit and the back pain was gone. I would cross the golden gate bridge until a town called Sausalito that is meant to be really nice. So I didnt even think about the fact that this city has hills and about the fact that a bridge is HIGH! And went to one of the rental places and rented a bike. In order to get to the biking place i took the cable car, the old one. Yeah being so touristy it cost me 5 dollars :S But as a tourist I had to do it and lets face it it was so cool :D And cuz it was early in the morning I managed to not have to wait in line! Great :) Previously to that the hostel had asked me to switch rooms,so now im in an overcrowded room.


Anyways. I got to the biking thing and got my bike. It was very new and nice, but i still miss my fiets from Den Haag :( I still get emails from people who want to buy it! Grr if only they wanted my bed!! I started biking by the shore and then after a while,there it came the chain got off. But im an expert in fixing bikes (not really,but whatever..) so i fixed it. Once everything was settled and as i was geting closer to the bridge the uphill started. And up i rode. I had to stop in the middle, i just have to face that im not in shape :) So i rode and rode and rode a bit more till the bridge. Taking a lot of pictures and asking people to take pictures of me :) Then another hill..and finally on the bridge.

Here is where the story began. The bridge had a nice high fence,which suddenly stoped, it was windy and my baggy pants were geting tied to the chain. There were two fences the normal red one, not very high and a new metalic one. BUt the high and new metalic one is the one that suddenly stoped. All in all i was freaked out i was gona fall off the bridge. Do remember that im kind of freak out of hights. SO i dedcided to enjoy the panoramic view as I was walking and I walked the bridge with the bike by me. At some point i was asked if i was fine cuz i was walking with a bike. I tried biking on the left so i wouldnt have to go near the small fence of the right so i wouldnt fall into the water,but there were too many bikes coming towards me and i couldnt just stay on the left. Once off the bridge i biked down hill to Sausalito. That was fine,but again i had to bike down the road and cars go fast so i was a bit freaked out but managed to do that. Once in Sausalito the ferry came after 20 minutes and I took it. I would have liked to see the city better but the next ferry was gona come in about 2 horus so i decided against visiting the city. As you see i took a ferry back to SF not to have to walk all the way uphill till the bridge. Like this i also got a different view of the bridge and city. Later after returning my bike I returned to the hostel for a while to get something. And then met my friend.

It was really cool, we had a 4 hour driving tour of SF up the hills down the hills. We drove thorough the crookedest street..haha i love that street!...so i ended up going to a bunch of neighbourhoods I hadnt seen before. Including the gay neighbourhood in which there were a few cute guys :P Also saw the houses of some famous people. All in all a lot of nice places, like the city hall, and a bunch of squares, places to get better views of the bridge and the city. Really cool!!! Hadnt seen my friend in ages, i cant really say when ...maybe 5 years??? So it was nice to catch up. Later we ate a quesadilla in a Taqueria, very very lekker! And then headed back to the hostel. Wouldnt have minded seeing a movie,but my eyes are tiered so I wouldnt have enjoyed Brad Pitt in Oceans 13 that much....If you are gona watch Brad then better see him in full action rather than with one eye close and one open :) Unbelivable but true 1 day left in SF! Damn,this trip is leaving me wanting to do too many new trips...crossing Canada, west canada, california tour. Also people are constantly mentioning and talking about how great new zeland is..so now i have to do a new zeeland tour, but a long one! buahhh too many. Wish i was a guide book writer.

Oh..btw on the bridge there were phones with signs saying. THERE IS HOPE, MAKE THE CALL... in other words "Dont Jump" I wonder if the phones were working,imagine they werent!

Also,this is meant to be the "coldest"season in SF! Unbelivable huh?Its so nice,its windy and sunny ...not as hot as the other cities. Just great!

dag en tot morgen!