1-10-09 Saturday (Hair For Flowers?)

We've arrived in San Leandro (very close to San Francisco) and are staying at an RV park named SanDev. We're here just a week after John & Derek, who recommended this place, left. Kind of depressing in a way. Actually, if I knew them better, I'd feel comfortable in telling them that they suck. Maybe throw in a touch of "ruined our lives". Since we've never actually met, I won't mention anything like that.


The drive here was OK until we started getting near the San Francisco hub. At that point the roads seemed to intertwine that from outer space, one would expect it to look like a basket weave. It was merge, exit, keep left, do this, do that. With Jim's driving skills and my backseat driving skills, with a little shouting "No over there!" we arrived alive.


We arrived at the campground. The park is nice enough but there's railroad tracks right behind our site. I can actually see the tracks! What the hell is with airports, highways, and train tracks lately? Does this part of the US categorize trailer trash with the aforementioned items? After setting up camp here at site #34, we decided to take a ride to the Golden Gate Bridge. Man, there are some long ass bridges around here with high ass tolls. Anyway, over the Bay bridge we went then eventually over the Golden Gate bridge. The Golden Gate provided a Vista viewing area that was great. We've seen all of this at night and it will be interesting to see it all again in the daylight.



We drove to the Castro District which is a very large gay/lesbian area. Bars, shopping, restaurants and the like. We never got out of the Jeep; parking was near impossible. Aside from the lack of parking, we didn't really know where we were going. We just wanted to get out a little but next time we venture into the city it will probably be via public transportation combined with a plan. We'll need to figure it out versus driving.