Nearly done.

Someone asked me last night if I was ready to go home. I replied that I hadn’t really thought about that, so perhaps I wasn’t.

However I came to San Francisco late on Thursday night. And going into the city yesterday, I kept seeing photogenic views or objects and thinking “I took a photo of that when I was here 10 years ago; don’t need to do that again.”  Caught up with Chorus friends yesterday. They are full of what they’ve been doing – hop on hop off bus, off to Lombard Street, Haight Ashbury. I don’t feel the need to do all that again. Perhaps a combination of familiarity, or maybe it’s just travel-weariness. Maybe I am ready to go home – but just in denial because I don’t want another long flight (5.5 long hours from Montreal on Thursday night).

but first four of us (with 22 others in one of the biggest groups of the week) took a guided bike tour over the Golden Gate Bridge yesterday morning. Lovely clear sunny day. Great views. Excellent. Here we are at the Palace of Arts from the 1915 World Fair (subsequently rebuilt/restored).

Ferry trip rip back from Sausalito then seven of us went out to dinner. The others are all heading home today. There will be just two others from our Las Vegas group on my plane tomorrow night. (They were touristing further afield yeasterday and not back in time for dinner.)

Today I caught up with my youngest nephew, wife and baby. He is over here working on a business venture that he started developing in Sydney a few years back. His two sisters have also been visiting so it was quite a family reunion. A picnic lunch by the lake in Oakland near where they are living. Great afternoon.

Daylight saving finishes tonight. Too hard to figure out what that will do to the time difference. 18 hours has been easy to calculate.

A plan to check out the Golden Gate Park and other parks tomorrow before my late night departure.