To honor Grandma Klco, the Klco family decided to go on a family trip to San Francisco and the Bay area. We met up in the Cleveland airport and flew over together.
On the first day of our vacation in the Bay Area, we checked into our hotel in Sausalito, a small town south of San Francisco and spent the afternoon walking around town. After a wonderful dinner, we went to the Golden Gate park to take pictures of the bridge.
The next morning, we got to Muir Woods before the park even opened, which is the best way to visit the park. Admission was free and we were one of only a handful of groups wandering among the majestic redwoods. It is hard to describe both in words and film the true size of these mammoth trees.
The entrance to Muir Woods
Standing inside a redwood
After we walked a couple trails through the woods and retrieved some supposedly missing film, we headed to catch a boat to Fisherman's Wharf. Once we got off the boat, we got to ride one of San Francisco's many streetcars.
Most of Fisherman's Wharf is roughly akin to a larger Mackinac City, but the Musée Mécanique should not be missed. Easily the one of best, and definitely the cheapest attraction in San Francisco.
On our third day of vacation, we started the day early to head out to Chateau St. Jean in Sonoma, after sampling several wines and wandering their beautiful vineyard, we had lunch at Gott's Roadside, a restaurant featured on Diners, Drive ins and Dives.
We really didn't have a plan for what winery to visit in Napa so a fairly aimless drive and some quick Google Map-ing later we ended up at Paraduxx winery and spent a relaxing mid-afternoon sampling their blended wines.
On the drive back some of us were fairly sleepy...
On our final day of vacation, we went into San Francisco. We started at the SFMOMA, before splitting up and heading up to meet with friends. We met Sean, Vince and Ashley downtown and then went up to the Castro to get subs at Ike's Place. After we got our sandwiches, we went up to a park in the Mission district and spent a relaxing afternoon catching up before heading back to catch our flight.
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