Tuesday 24th March

A quiet one today, mostly taken up with recovering from last night, catching up some sleep and doing laundry. After getting another fabulous burrito from La Taquria, we took an early evening trip to Fisherman’s Wharf on the cable car which was pretty good fun, got to experience those classic steep San Franciscan roads in the ideal transport. From what we could see of Fisherman’s Wharf, it was an unpleasant tourist trap, although it has a great deal more history to it than that. It was good to go there in a way though, it made us appreciate how good it was to have based ourselves in the Mission, much more like the real city. We headed back to the hostel, realising that there was a rooftop bar on the floor above us, which accounted for a lot of the strange noise that had been disturbing our sleep. We spurned its overpricing for a cocktail bar over the road, and perused the map and guidebooks over rum cocktails. Still in a quandary over how to do the rest of the trip, pretty much decided on heading to Yosemite tomorrow and then taking it from there. It’s really a question of whether to keep heading inland and hit some proper desert, or to come back to the coast for Big Sur and maybe a spot of fishing. We can always head out to the desert further south. And we’re still undecided about whether to even bother with L.A. Hopefully all will become clear.