It’s a little chilly here- I mean, it’s 52 degrees, but humidity has a lot to do with how chilly those 52 degrees feel. Nevertheless, we got the warmest welcome. We landed, and a very nice lady at the airport asked us what we were trying to find, then directed us to the correct intra-terminal train. From there, a man at the Bay Area Rapid Transit station told us which train would do the trick to get us where we were headed, and finally, we hopped right on a proper San Francisco cable car. I felt like a jerk with luggage on a cable car, but everyone was super-nice. The conductor even offered to take a very fabulous tourist photo when we reached the end of the line.
I mean, look-
It was a great way to roll into town. Our hotel is around the corner from the end of the cable car line, and in addition to the luggage, we were a proper tourists all the way here, marveling at the buildings, the sights and the absolutely steep streets. Man, Dallas is flat….
The unexpected cool thing we saw on the way here was how they move a cable car at the end of the line into position so it can begin again. There is a section of track on a rotating platform. The cable car rolls onto the platform, then the crew manually spins the whole car around to flip it to the right direction for its next journey. So cool. So, that’s the unexpected awesome thing we got on the way to the hotel. We’re here, now and about to figure out where we want to eat dinner. I suspect there may be a little seafood or maybe some Chinese in our future.
Cas has officially kicked off our photo album, too, so hop in there and check out what we have seen so far:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/pvpQGq1HUr8hBmKa7
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