San Francisco!!!!!!! (a sneak preview)

Hey there...

Getting a lot done at the moment before heading out to Santa Rosa.  But I wanted to give you a map of where we're going today and a few shots from yesterday's adventure...

Rick, Vince, and I, for the first time ever, experienced the redwoods...

A quick summary: We rented a car and took off from South San Francisco and drove for about an hour and twenty minutes to Big Basin State Park, experienced The Trees, then headed down to Route 1 and then northward along the coast stopping often because...there were a few things to look at...  :)

Shared dinner in Half Moon Bay, drove over the Golden Gate Bridge at night to see the city lights, drove back towards the city the same way, and finally joined friends at Top of the Mark (a bar at the top of a famous hotel downtown) for coffee/drinks over San Francisco.

Amazing...

Here's a map of our route...

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=south+san+francisco,+CA&daddr=boulder+creek,+Ca+to:Big+Basin+Redwoods+State+Park,+California+95033,+95033+(Big+Basin+Redwoods+State+Park)+to:santa+cruz,+ca+to:half+moon+bay,+ca+to:Pacifica,+Ca+to:Sausalito,+Marin,+California+to:1+Nob+Hl,+San+Francisco,+CA+94108+(Top+of+the+Mark+Restaurant+-+Mark+Hopkins+Hotel)&hl=en&geocode=%3B%3BFfrxNgIdTtG2-CFU8WJyzXQlkA%3B%3B%3B%3BFRavQQId_QWz-A%3BFTmnQAIdcyq0-CHpRP41XZ__2Q&mra=ls&sll=37.4098,-122.23746&sspn=1.313341,2.493896&ie=UTF8&z=9

And soon we leave for Santa Rosa...

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=abingdon+va&daddr=greeneville+tn+to:lexington+ky+to:poplar+bluff+missouri+to:rolla+missouri+to:effingham+illinois+to:somerset+KY+to:oak+brook+IL+to:appleton,+Wisconsin+to:whitewater,+wisconsin+to:wausau,+wisconsin+to:oskaloosa,+Iowa+to:oklahoma+city,+Oklahoma+to:albuquerque,+NM+to:waco,+tx+to:austin,+tx+to:Fort+Stockton,+TX+to:El+Paso,+TX+to:gilbert,+AZ+to:northridge,+CA+to:modesto,+CA+to:San+Luis+Obispo,+California+to:San+Francisco,+CA+to:Santa+Rosa,+Ca&hl=en&geocode=%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3B%3BFUBfGgIdYOHO-A%3B%3B&mra=ls&sll=37.265275,-102.199035&sspn=41.697194,79.804688&ie=UTF8&ll=37.230328,-102.304687&spn=41.697194,79.804688&z=4

Off to pack...

Many more photos of the day soon!

Hope all are well.