San Francisco - Day 3

e rented bikes to bike over the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito. We used Bike and Roll. There's a 10% discount if you book in advance on the internet. We walked over to the location in North Beach from our hotel, grabbing breakfast at an Italian place on the way.

The bike path was crowded with lots of other bikers. Make sure to bring water with you even if it's not hot. We made that mistake and had to wait until we got to the Golden Gate Bridge gift shop and by then our out of shape asses were dying.

It's about 10 miles from where you pick up the bikes to Sausalito. We learned we are not in shape. We had to walk our bikes up several hills. The serious bikers in their spandex blew past us. I'm sure they were laughing at us. At the end of our bike ride our butts were extremely sore.

We had a great time though. At first the bridge was covered in fog. Then halfway over the bridge it disappeared and we could finally see the other side. Then we biked along the shore in Marin County where we got some great views of the city and the bridge.

We were famished by the time we got to Sausalito so we decided to go to Scoma's since it was the first restaurant we saw. I had a bowl of the clam chowder which was the best I had all weekend and then the dungeness crab salad sandwich which was decent. The husband had a cheeseburger. In reality we should have looked around town a bit more to find something a little more casual for lunch.

We high-tailed it out of there to make the next ferry back. Good thing too. We were exhausted and it was a very long process of waiting in line for the ferry, loading the ferry, the ferry ride, unloading, returning the bikes, and walking back to our hotel from Fisherman's Wharf.

After taking a long nap, we headed out to dinner at Tropisueno per a recommendation from our concierge. Originally we had been planning on going to a seafood restaurant but after lunch I was tired of seafood.

We were able to walk from our hotel to dinner and it's also near Union Square. There was also almost a crisis as they told me they don't have strawberry daiquiris. Or anything with fruit. They had a drink menu that sounded delicious, except everything was made with tequila. And I hate tequila. The waitress had the bartender substitute another liquor for tequila in a fruity girly drink and I was happy. If you are a tequila lover, their margarita and drink menus were excellent.

We decided to just get a bunch of appetizers to share between the two of us so we could try some different things. We had guacamole which was pretty good but a little too spicy. Then the tostada de camarones. It was good but messy to eat the hard shell. We also had the chicken flautas which were delicious. And finally the molotes de papa y chorizo which was also very good. All in all a solid restaurant.

After dinner we headed to another wine bar, First Crush, in the Union Square area. Something about the decor was just too clubby and dated so the ambiance was a little off. But I enjoyed a wine flight of champagne and The Husband enjoyed one of the red wine flights. All the wines they carry are California wines and are probably easy to find in a store. We also had a cheese plate that was pretty good.

It still wasn't very late so we decided to head up the street to another concierge recommendation, the Starlight Room in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. Our concierge made it sound like this was a great place to just grab a drink and look at the view as it's on the top floor.

Oh no. It's more like a nightclub. An old time nightclub with guys working the door in tuxes and people going in wearing fancy dresses. And a cover charge. Honestly not sure what our concierge was thinking suggesting this place as we were wearing fairly casual outfits of jeans and nice shirts as we asked his advice before leaving for dinner. Definitely not our kind of scene.