San Francisco

It is the end of all those small towns we stayed until yet, now it’s San Francisco! We arrived there and had to find a safe, quiet and free park place… That took us 6 hours and not downtown but 40min from downtown by train!  Anyway it was safe or almost… (read until the end and you will know what happened!)
We took all our stuff for one week, our  bikes and jumped in the train. We wandered by bike through that big city and looked to book a hostel. We let our bikes 3h locked against a fence, when we came back Steven’s bike wasn’t there anymore! Stolen !
The first impression was pretty bad… Second bad news was that all the hostels were pretty expensive or out of our budget. So we found a cheap hotel. Fortunately that was just one night: homeless people were taking hard drugs in front of the door and getting back after party at night was pretty sketchy!

A big thank you to Arnaud and Fiona (2 swiss friends) who rescued us and invited us to their  residence for a couple of nights ! They were also perfect tour guides, showing us the city and having a good time: Haight and Ashburry, golden gate park, Mission district, Embarcadero and other district, Lombard Street, Telegraph hill…

It was also an opportunity for us to meet all the students from the residence. We were even invited to join the official barbecue with all the students! Amazing sunset and after a nice fire until the cops came with their shovels to burry our fire! An epic moment, enjoy the pictures!

Many crazy parties with all our new friends, amazing spots for sightseeing and chilling, history with the visit of Alcatraz, naked people in the streets… In San Francisco you never know what could happen.

After 6 great days it’s time to grab our van back! We thought that it was a safe spot where we parked… Unfortunately not everybody likes our van. The kindly neighbour had the good idea to flat our tire! Nice way to show that he didn’t really like the presence of our beauty in front of his yard.