first impressions

tunnel view


Union Square - the heart of bay city


one day exploring the city of freedom (9/25/2010):
CABLE CAR

getting the thing ready

famous view


hold on! (no seat belts required...)

skyline (tiny part of it)

Mr. Christoph Columbus in front on COIT TOWER

PIER 39 and its famous Seals in the Sun

ALCATRAZ - where only 3 people could ever escape...

...and were not to be seen ever again

LOMBARD STREET: you MAY have seen it in a lot of movies...


old houses at ALAMO SQUARE

Dutch Windmill in GOLDEN GATE PARK

Behave! Don't...do ANYTHING!

old friends: BISONS (way not as free as their fellows in Custer State Park...)

pelicans on their way to freedom: flying over GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE



ALCATRAZ - world's famous prison

that's where they "lived"

some of the inmates were - and still are - quite famous



yearning for freedom: the view from the prison's garden



GOODBYE SAN FRAN

no sorry, we're leaving...