Here's the low down, straight up. About 300 miles north of San Francisco, our transmission basically went. We could keep it in gear, just barely. It was a lot like threading a needle in the dark, from 5 feet away, using poles to hold both the needle and thread. And it sounded just awful. Now the car still ran, and we got him all the way across the Golden Gate.
But, we made an important decision here. If you were to drop, or image what it sounds like to drop, about a few thousand pennies onto a glass surface, that is what it sounds like when we drive. And we get kicked out of gear randomly and constantly. So we decided it just isn't safe to drive any further. We could cause a deadly accident. So here we are.
I am posting from a hotel room at the Motel Capri, on Greenwich in the Marina district in San Francisco. We are a short walk from the Palace of Fine Arts, the Golden Gate Bridge, the crooked Lombard Street, the Marina, Alcatraz, historic street cars and downtown. It truly is wonderful.
Every person we have told our story to has wanted to help us in some way. The wonderful folks that run this hotel are giving us a top floor room with two beds at roughly a 50% discount, for instance. So we are staying here for two nights, maybe three. We don't feel like we failed, we feel like we just reached a different goal.
Everyone who reads this really cannot understand how wonderful this city is without seeing it for themselves. It is truly beyond description. After a few days here, we are going to grab a bus back to Kamloops, and should be home on Saturday. We have seen so much already, but have even more left to experience here. Although we aren't posting many pictures or videos on the blog, we are indeed racking up the gigabytes on our SD cards with hundreds of photos and videos.
Before we leave, we are going to try for a tour of Alcatraz, and see the King Tut exhibit at the de Young museum. Hopefully we use our cunning and charisma to get into both, I've heard we will need it. Until then, enjoy these two video updates of our adventures :)
*Our GPS has a George Bush voice that keeps telling us we have reached our destification. Once he told us to bear right, but he didn't know what kind of bear it was.
-steve
Monday, August 17, 2009
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Awww and just as I was starting to follow...
ReplyDeleteThat sucks guys, but hey, San Fran is A-MA-ZING so it's not like it's a total loss. All there is down south is triple degree heat. Well, so far as I know...I haven't actually made it there yet...
Sad you guys didn't make it all the way down, but where you got sounds like a pretty sweet vacation anyway. Also, I'm quite impressed with the amount of updates you've been making. Maybe you should do this next year?
ReplyDeleteThanks for checking out our adventure. This is certainly a pretty sweet vacation. I've got about a thousand stories to tell when I get back. Every minute walking around in this city, especially this historic area we are staying in, we find new awesome things that just blow us away.
ReplyDeleteIt's a giant reward for being us. The Wells Fargo Bank even gave both of us 10 dollars each!
Wow, I had a feeling something happened when I didn't see any updates yesterday. Then I clicked on ur blog when I got home from works and I obviously noticed a change in your header. That is truly a shame, but I like what you said about a change of destination. Does this mean Morris won't be coming home? Oh no! :(. Very epic journey boys! I feel this can make it into the paper for sure. I wish you went in the paper before you left because then maybe you would have crudloads of followers.
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