San Francisco, wearing flowers and bad hair

Wind, steep hills - just like home really, except difficult to find a decent coffee.

We've got a room in a hostel near Union Square, from which Georgie has been hungrily eying Macy's and various other department stores. But apart from dinner the first night in a Chinatown restaurant, we've started most of our first couple of days from Fisherman's Wharf. Watching Tom and Jerry cartoons outdoors at The Cannery the first night, hiring bikes to cycle across the Golden Gate Bridge and through Sausalito and the Redwoods to Tiburon on our first full day, and visiting Alcatraz today.

We'll pad this out with pictures when we have a chance, but for now, as they say in the cartoons, "That's All Folks!"