Day 38 March 10th San Francisco

looking out from cable car

very wet cable car

our cable car with Christine

cable car lines crossing

Our last day in San Francisco was very wet.  It rained from the start of the day until we left in the evening.  

cable car controls

 

Unfortunate for us but we cannot begrudge them the rain as they have had drought conditions for four years!  Anyway we had a leisurely breakfast and then packed our luggage before checking out.


The question was: how do we fill our day with such


Chinatown from cable car

a poor forecast?  We decided on another cable car ride followed by a ride on one of their tracked trams.  It was raining all the time and we became wet walking to the cable car start.  There were very few people on the car and we had personal attention and so we went up the full extent of the line and then returned again.




tram "streetcar"

We got out into the rain and went to the tram stop and one soon came along.  We took a ride to the fisherman's wharf where we had a seafood sourdough chowder for lunch which is a local speciality.  After this because we were so wet we went to a shopping wharf but that was still getting us wet so we caught another tram back to the hotel.  We decided to go to the airport early where at least it would be dry.  We got a taxi but the traffic was slow as there was flooding in places.   We are now there and have largely dried out before boarding our flight to Heathrow.