Seeing one of the worlds seven wonders.

Today was a full day of California Adventure.  We started today with a ride around the city on a Trolley Car.  I was sitting in a seat while The Chief and the Cisco Kid wanted to hang on the sides. It felt like the commercial years ago, about the, Rice A Roni the San Francisco treat, and they were hanging off the sides singing.  Only there was no singing.  The ride got a little scary when the trolley went up and down very steep hills in traffic, and the only thing that makes this trolley stop is a brake man with a hand brake that grabs the cable in the ground. 

 

This is where he stood the whole trip.

The Brake man and that handle was the brake.  

One of the hills at a 51 degree grade.  

Our next stop was the Famous Golden Gate Bridge.  San Francisco is not only known for the Golden Gate Bridge, but the fog that roll in off the coast.  Today was a windy 68 degrees and the wall of fog rolled in as usual.  We walked across the Golden Gate Bridge and the scenery was still spectacular even with the well known fog sitting on top of the bridges peaks.

 

This is the bridge in its bare bones.  It shows how the whole bridge was built to sway back and forth and how each sections of the bridge moves.  They had to build it this way to resist earthquakes and high wind.  The cables on the bridge is the only thing holding this bridge up.  Without the cables it would fold in on itself.

This picture is from a mountain across from San Francisco Called the Marin Headlands.  

Some of the flowers that are indigenous to this area.  So pretty!!

 

 

 The City

 Until tomorrow.