USA - San Francisco

First trip to US!

Day 1 (31st March) - Landed at 8am in the morning, the 14 hours flight is dreading as I hardly managed to fall asleep. Thankfully there are good movies to watch on SIA. The custom, as expected, took us 2 hours to get through. Took Uber to our Airbnb and managed a short rest.

View from our rooftop! can you believe this

After awhile we went down to buy Golden Boy pizza recommended by Airbnb owner, probably the best roadside pizza of my life.

Best pizza ever, can't believe I'll say this having been to Europe

Knocked out for 4 hours in the afternoon due to jet-lag and woke in the evening. We strolled down to Pier 39 and toured the area, guess it's one of the happen areas at the bay.

Great day

Back to city area for some Chinese food for dinner. Don't know why we ate Chinese food on our first night in US.

Day 2 (1st April) - Woke up looking around for breakfast. Settled for a decent American style place with poached egg and toast. The plan of the day is to cycle along the coast to golden gate bridge. We began the journey at around noon and it took a lot longer than expected to reach the bridge, almost 2 hours.

The bridge in sight but still damn far

Day 3 (2nd April) - Really excited today as we will be heading to Oracle Arena for Warriors vs Wizards match. Can't wait to see Steph Curry in person. First activity of the day was to meet up with my aunt and her family. They are staying in San Jose actually but drove all the way over to San Fran to meet us. We set off slightly earlier to have a brief walk around the Golden Gate Park before meeting them for Chinese food lunch.

Golden Gate Park - kinda boring to me

In the afternoon, we took Bart to Oakland and arrived 1 hour early to the game. Woohoo to the atmosphere and crowd. This 1 hour was spent queuing team merchandise stores and eventually settling for a Steph Curry jersey which had 1-for-1 promotion.

Great win by the dubs!

I was so hyped for the game that I was cheering and screaming like a lunatic fan. It paid dividends as Steph Curry was monster hitting 3s after 3s. And you can tell how much he is beloved by the fans when everyone will go nuts each time he hit a three.

Day 4 (3rd April) - Today is the day to head back to the Bay. After a promising day yesterday, we headed back to the Bay in search of more. We started the afternoon with ferry ride around the Bay, overlooking the bridges and Alcatraz.

Pretty much summed up all the roads here in Bay Area

Ferry ride around the Bay

Afternoon was pretty simple as well. Riley's Believe-it-or-not Museum, casual stroll along the Bay back to Pier 39 in search of hotdogs.

Finally having le jumbo hotdog

Day 5 (4th April) - BIGGEST BLUNDER EVER! We woke at 5.45am to catch our bus to Yosemite. Waited and waited and waited at the pick-up point until 7.30am and feeling something was wrong. We called the customer hot-line and realize our trip was supposed to be 3rd of April instead! OMG, we just wasted $500...!

To compensate for our misfortune, we decided to go and queue for the famous brunch place 'Mamas'. The queue was crazy long and the restaurant is really small. It's pretty surprising people willing to travel down and queue for 1 hour + to eat this. We started queuing at around 9am and entered the restaurant only at around 10.15am. And we had to queue at the counter again to order food. By the time food arrived, it was already 10.45am.

Monte Cristo and Egg Benedict. Monte Cristo was really nice!

After brunch, we walked back our house to rest and think of what to do for the day. After some research, we have decided to go to a town across the Golden Gate Bridge called Sausalito. We set of in the early afternoon to the jetty and board a ferry over.

Chilly and peaceful town of Sausalito, stress-free place

It is a relaxing and peaceful little town at Sausalito, by the waters and overlooking the hills. We strolled along the streets and even stopped at a food place for afternoon tea. In the evening, we headed back to San Fran and Kaixin was craving Steak. Thus as recommended by Yelp (everyone uses this here), we headed to The House for their steak. Absolutely the best steak I have ever eaten.

Day 6 (5th April): Time to move on to our next destination, Las Vegas! It will be via domestic flights that will take us an hour.