I was really excited when I heard this after 4 hours of flight from the middle to the west coast of this huge continent. I visited San Francisco and Berkeley from Fri 4th to Mon 7th. San Francisco is an amazing city, located at the gate from the bay to the open Pacific. I crossed the Golden Gate Bridge by bike, went to a town at the bay and back by ferry.
High skyscrapers in the financial district and many white houses under the blue Californian sky are a good combination.
There are people from all over the world, especially also from Asia which is "just" on the other side of the ocean. This can also be noticed in China town. Impressing to see cargo ships from China or Korea which have crossed the Pacific and arrive at SF after passing the gate.
Luckily, I didn't meet any of the mountain lions, but I did see Californian sea lions which like to stay at the harbour, quite social and lazy...
I checked the water temperature only with my feet, but it felt much colder than the Finnish lakes in May. The days are shorter in California than in the Finnish summer, on the other hand the sun shines more vertically, so that I casted only a small shadow e.g. here in front of the "campanile" on the Berkeley campus.
The flight back started with a clear view on the whole bay area, the bridge and the wide ocean, much better than from any tower. The high, snowy Rocky Mountains were visible later.
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