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Today was one of the most exciting days in San Francisco. We crossed the Golden Gate Bridge.

We thought about walking over the bridge or renting a bike to be able to stop and enjoy the view but decided to take our car this time instead.
The reason for it was that we wanted to go to a few other places north of the bridge and that would have been pretty far with a bike.

So first stop, breakfast. Bagel and coffee – check. Punching our destination into the navigation system – check. Getting there – check. Driving over the bridge and being in awe – check, check, check 😃

Someone likes to hang around this vista point as well

The Golden Gate Bridge is massive. The pilers, the height, the amount of cars and people crossing this bridge every day. What is most impressive of course ist the fact that it was built in 1933. People didn’t have the technical possibilities we have today.

When you are driving out of the city over the bridge you can turn right immediately after crossing the bridge. There is a vista point with a big parking lot and a wonderful view of the bridge.

How could we be satisfied with one vista point? We drove over to the Golden Gate Vista Point on the other side. It is located on the hills. There are a few good places to have a wonderful overlook. One of the best is Battery Spencer as well.

Another tip for you: driving over the Golden Gate Bridge costs toll. A few years back they still had toll booths on the bridge. Right now they are not in use.
You can either pay your toll at the visitor center right before crossing the bridge or talk to your car rental agency about automatic toll charges.
We usually check back with them and choose the automatic charging system. Depending on the agency they will charge you a little extra fee but to me it is worth it. This way you can just drive over toll streets without stopping and looking for toll booths or visitor centers. All toll fees will be charged to your credit card through the cameras at toll streets that check your license plate.

View from Battery Spencer

View from Battery Spencer

We wanted to get out of the city and see what is right outside of San Francisco. So we drove further north to Sausalito. A cute little town, very touristy but great to relax and have coffee with a view 😉
We wanted to go even further and see how people are living off of the tourist track. So we drove further to Tiburon and enjoyed our lunch on a bench in Tiburon Point, also with a view. It is basically located across the bay of San Francisco and you can see the city from a distance.
Tiburon seemed like a cute town as well, very quiet, clean with beautiful houses.

View from Tiburon Point

Tiburon houses

After our tour outside of San Francisco we drove down to the Cliff House and Sutro Baths. Both are located on the west side of San Francisco.
The Sutro Bath was a salt water bath house built in 1896 and the largest indoor swimming pool at the time. It burned down in 1966 but the ruins can still be visited. There is also a little cave where you can look down into the ocean 😊 It is quite a big site to see and must have been a great swimming pool.

Sutro Baths

Our last stop were the Tiled Steps on 16th Avenue. We didn’t get to enjoy the steps as we wanted to due to signs that no valuables should be left inside the car. We had a very bad experience in Florida a few years back where people broke into our car and stole everything. Yes, I mean everything. We had our suitcases in the car at the time.
Although we did not have anything valuable in the car this time, we were afraid that someone might brake into the for the radio and we would have the trouble with the car rental agency.
So please take these signs seriously!!

Anyway, we hurried up and took a few pictures 😌

View from Sausalito

We had dinner at a mexican restaurant - Papito in Potrero Hills – very good!

A quick flight over the neighborhood with our drone from the rooftop of our house and our time in San Francisco was coming to an end.
No need to be sad! There was so much more to experience and explore on our trip 😃

XOXO
TabeaLouise

Catch up on my previous posts of our 'Epic Trip':

Day 1 - ✈️ Preparations + Getting there
Day 2 - Santa Barbara 🌴 + Morro Bay
Day 3 - Highway 101 + Big Sur 🌊
Day 4 - Graveyards 👻 + San Francisco
Day 5 - San Francisco 1 🌃
Day 6 - San Francisco Day 2 📷

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