Drive About Town

After a slight delay in AZ, tons of catching up with Perer and Joan and being up for 24 hours, Alex and I poured ourselves into bed last night.  After a couple of sleep we decided to make the most of the car we rented to get us from San Jose to San Francisco.

Over the years (since Peter and Joan moved to CA) we have slowly been checking off the hot tourist spots.  As a result, we are always trying to find some new things to throw into the mix.  Before we headed out, I did some googling and discovered the 16th Ave Tiled Steps Project.  The community came together to design and tile the 163 steps.

At the top of the steps there is a path which takes you up one of the original sand dunes of the city.  We were glad we "hiked" to the top because the view was BOMB!  You could see all the way out to the ocean, as well as to downtown/the Bay.

Highlights from the rest of the afternoon included Coit Tower

The New Mint and the Old Mint

On a tourist note: You cannot take a tour of the new mint and while you can walk around the old one (the mint which survived the great earthquake of 1906) there is not much to see a.k.a. not worth it