Stav in the USA 2010: San Francisco - Golden Gate Model Railroad Club, Golden Gate Bridge and Fort Point.

Last stop on my adventure was San Francisco. So many things to see here in San Francisco. There was a couple of model railroad clubs I wanted to see as well as Alcatraz and maybe visit a few scenes from the movie Dirty Harry.

First up was the Golden Gate Model Railroad club. This is a club I found on the internet back when I was in year 7 or 8 back in 1993 or 94. I probably came with unrealistic expectations so I was a little disappointed with what I saw. It wasn’t that it was unfinished or poor quality, just it wasn’t as big as I expected. Still it was good to see it. The club was located in the basement of the Randell Museum, which was located on the side of a hill and offered nice views of San Francisco.

After the GGMRC I headed to the Golden Gate bridge. For some reason I couldn’t seem to get the theme song to Full House out of my head as I looked at the bridge. Its an impressive bridge, although it is not the largest bridge in San Francisco I believe it is the oldest one.

There is also Fort Point located at the bottom of the bridge, which was built in the mid 1800 as a defence point for San Francisco Harbour. One thing I discovered but wasn’t aware of was how windy San Francisco could be. The wind was very strong and also quite cold. I think the warmest it got during my time in SF was mid 20s (50s - 60s).I also wasn’t aware of the amount of low level cloud in SF. The second time I drove over the GG bridge (this time with the camera mounted and rolling) the low lying cloud all but obliterated the bridge from view.