AmyLou2009

San Francisco, New York...

Posted by AmyLou2009 | 30th July 2009

We dropped off our car in San Francisco, a city famed for its hills, homosexuals, and homeless people. It is a quaintly picturesque city. Antique trams haul themselves up steep roads flanked by pastel coloured townhouses. Union Square, the spotless town centre, is brimming with upmarket department stores; colourful murals and entire streets are dedicated to Beat poets and revolutionary leaders; not one but two leviathan suspension bridges span the bay area, where the now defunct Alcatraz simmers malevolently and is encroached by the salty wharves of the docks and Ferry Building.

We took a nighttime stroll through the Tenderloin district, where the number of crack-heads and pimps, beggars and weirdos is simply frightening: talking to themselves, singing, or haranguing the cold night air. We also visited the Golden Gate Bridge which, as is typical for the time of year, was shrouded by mist (there is a strange micro-climate here whereby the bay area will be foggy and cold while the tow

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