Sunday, April 6, 2014

The Big Trip - Day 22 - San Francisco (Part 2)

View downhill!


The Transamerica Pyramid



View uphill!


The cable cars



Cable Car Museum









This chimney used to be taller, but it was damaged in the 1906 earthquake




Grace Cathedral









Lombard Street








Ghirardelli Square





Going for a ride on the cable car (I had to hang on and stand on the running board!)




Old flatiron building



Ferry terminal building




Pier 39





The Alcatraz Gift Shop



Each stair was a different piano note


Alcatraz


Pier 39 sea lions





Heading out to Alcatraz



Wind turbines on the boat



Views out on the bay






Arriving at Alcatraz






Remnant of the Native American sit-in






In the cellblock






Solitary Confinement


The library








The Governor's House (burned down in the 1970s)


The city by night


The control centre



A fake head - as used in the infamous Escape from Alcatraz


The hospital (only open in the evenings)



Cell door demonstration


The kitchen



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