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This Coke fridge is in the admin office at Alcatraz, I just wanted to bring it home with me. :) This is the control room at Alcatraz. And another control room pic, I'm not sure just what can and can't be controlled from here, while the cell doors at Alcatraz were able to be opened and...

awesome.... congratulations... :)

A 'typical' Alcatraz cell. Note the crochet hooks and wool in the foreground, crocheting was a fairly popular way for the hardened criminals residing in Alcatraz to pass the time. Painting was another popular pastime on 'The Rock'. Some of the rules for those inmates who were lucky enough...

You can't go to San Francisco without visiting Alcatraz. Alcatraz is a national park, and you don't pay for entry, as such, but there's only one company that's allowed to land ferries at the dock on Alcatraz, and they charge around $50 per person for a return trip. From memory, they send...

Cheers :) I know exactly what you mean, cos we do it all the time here too.... Still to come from the trip, are the Alcatraz and Monterey pics...

Cheers :) It's really good to drive too, does all the right stuff, the old 472 can even smoke the tyres if you ask it nicely... :) the brakes do tend to get quite warm quite quickly in the hills, but thats expected, cos it weighs about 2500kg... :)

They even have cops on horses here.... (ok, so we have them at home too, but considering we're getting rid of bike cops cos they cost too much, the horses can't be far behind). Something else we noticed about cops in California, is that every roadworks site we saw, had at least 1 cop in...

One last shot of the Golden Gate Bridge to add to the collection of photos of the Cadillac in front of famous stuff.. :) From one of the biggest bridges in the world, it was off to the street that claims to be "the crookedest street" in America, Lombard Street. Some of the priciest real...

Looking from the bridge towards the city, you can see the carpark from which I took the night shot a few posts above.... These are the cables that hold the bridge up.... And here's yet another view of the bridge... :) These pillars are huge.... This is a very busy bridge...

Here's a few more SF shots.... Like any good tourist, we drove across the Golden Gate Bridge... Then we walked back.... The view from here is really nice... But not everyone comes to the Golden Gate Bridge for the view... Thats why they have these phones across the bridge...

Here's a couple more touristy San Francisco photos... Golden Gate Bridge from Fort Point, shortly before the local cops came to kick everyone out and lock the place up for the night. The Caddy out the front of one of 4 Mel's Drive In's in San Francisco (and of the 3 we checked out before...

After Treasure Island, we jumped back on the Bay Bridge and continued into San Francisco, we'd been told about a 49 mile scenic drive that the council have marked out, but besides the street signage (which is pretty comprehensive) there's not a lot of info around. We knew that it started at...

We went to San Francisco a couple of times. The first time we went via the Bay Bridge and stopped off at Treasure Island on the way. Treasure Island is a former US Navy base that consists of a lot of disused Navy buildings, some housing that now has civilian residents and a couple of businesses...

G1 is a HTC Dream, G2 is a HTC Magic... and the HTC Hero is due out before too long, if it's not already available, depending on your market... I recently went with a Magic, and have been pretty happy with my decision...

Aussie Falcons and Monaro's were both sold in South Africa... and it's a good place to find a cheap (compared to local prices for the real deal) version that is almost the real thing...

I'm thinking he means he has 9 years experience bartending, not that he's 9 years old...

hell yeah... we had an awesome time... now we're trying to work out when we can go back... i had plans when we left, to post every day, but once we got there, we were rarely sitting round with time to post... i did however make sure i got at least one photo a day worth uploading, which was...

The next day, we went and had lunch at Hooters... We were planning on going to the Aussie themed restaurant 'The Outback Steakhouse', but they weren't open so we went to Hooters instead.... (We were always going to go there before we come home, just not today...) So far, of all the burgers...

Alum Rock Park is one of the bigger local national parks, and back in the early 1900's and late 1800's, was a very popular desination for San Jose locals (lack of cars meant that if you had somewhere interesting and a railroad, you had lots of people... Alum Rock Park had a railroad and plenty...

I don't think anyone does mini-golf quite like the Americans... This is probably a little below the average for their courses, and still way cooler than anything we've got back home... Mind you, I don't think they have supa-golf here yet... :) Of course, we're in Silicon Valley, and both k8...