It´s a new day in San Francisco, but have moved out of the hotel an into a hostel. We was up early today as we had to drop off our car rental, check into our hostel, drop off our bags and get to the pier for the trip to Alcatraz. Thankfully, we made dropped the car off without the need to fill up with fuel. But the rest of the time was tight and we needed to catch a cab to the Pier for Alcatraz. We was cutting it fine but our immaculate timing meant we never missed the ferry to the island.

Only me, Mike, Chris and Jingkei went there in the end because Kev had already been. The four of us arrived on the island which was riddled with flies. Unfortunately, the island is on its fly breeding season which meant we had to put up with the pests for our time on the island. It didn´t really affect us much when we went into Alcatraz Prison. We got to see the cells of famous cellmates and hear the stories of escape attempts which were interesting.

Following Alcatraz, we met up with Kev and did a walking tour around, visiting various areas such as Chinatown and the Coit Tower. We also stopped by the Chinese History museum which essentally informed us about how the Chinese population in San Francisco grew. The walk was thirsty work and so we treated ourselves to a beer. We found this Thai bar that seemed to be a massive Manchester City Football club fan as they had their memorabilla all over the place.

We continued on from the bar to a small chinese cafe who were offering an all you can eat Dim Sum buffet for about 5 dollars. This was perfect for lining our stomachs for the pub crawl we signed up for at the hostel that was to start on the same evening. It was a good night and met loads of new people. Surprisingly, most of the people on there were British. Infact, we met a people from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

The morning after, our plans for getting up early to explore San Francisco by bikes were delayed by a few hours. We still made it to a bike rental place by about 11:30am. Apart from a wobbly seat and dodgy brakes, the bikes were perfect.

We rode along the coast of San Francisco towards the Golden gate bridge. We then rode south towards Golden Gate Park where we enjoyed the nice view of the beach. Soon after we entered Golden Gate park where we saw the buffalo sanctury. The next stop was to ride along the golden gate bridge.

It turns out that Kev rode all the way to Solstice as he thought we would do the same. He realised that he needed to go back to the bike shop to hand his bike in and so he goes and catches the ferry across the bay instead of riding across the beach as it was quicker. Whilst waiting for the ferry a very very loud bang suddenly lashed out which clearly gave every else waiting for the ferry a shock. Kev ended up walking back a fair way, but at least he made it back safe.

We was leaving the next day to start our road trip along the Pacific coast highway and so we decided to grab a curry that was recommended to us and call it a night.