San Francisco Nights - Day 4, Part 2 - Mr. Toad's tours cont'd

Yes, Day 4 was a very long day and I can't seem to shorted the day anymore so I go on.  The tour took us to Haight Ashbury of the 60s hippy fame, now mostly line with trendy boutiques and the alternative crowd and a lot of homeless.

There was no need to take photos of the homeless as we have quite plenty of our own here in DC. The significant difference between the homeless in our cities, the homeless in SF were mostly white.  Very interesting.

We proceeded toward Golden Gate Park with it's lush green trees and beautiful gardens.

We took a break at the Music Concourse Area where they hold free concerts in the Spring and Summer.  The concourse is surrounded by the Natural Academy of Science and the De Young Museum, both of which were closed at that time of day.

Too bad they didn't have any concerts on this gloomy day.

Ahead of the pink bloomed tree is the Japanese Tea Garden. I will show more of later.

From there, we drove to Golden Gate Bridge where the weather drastically changed: the fog came suddenly with fine mist.  Bill sure looks pretty happy for a gloomy day. At least we got a photo.  More photos of the bridge on Day 5 when we have the bike tour.

The photo below was taken before the tour but though I'd end with this.  It was a really fun tour and we had a chance to take it easy today unlike yesterday.

Then we took an old yellow bus back to the hotel - Bill told me that these were probably the same streetcars from the Philly area.:

Oh, as we did take the cable car when we came down for the tour and forgot to post us on it. It was pretty crowded and at $5 for one way, we lucked out getting on and off for free. I guess the driver couldn't keep tabs of everyone coming on and off the cable car.

This would have been fun to do, but we didn't:

Went back to the hotel and had sushi at Makuki, the restaurant attached to our hotel. The food was divine. Sorry, no photos.