San Francisco

The flight to San Francisco with Virgin went OK, although I was feeling pretty rough all day after picking up the bug that Jessica had been suffering from over Christmas.  Arrived to beautiful sunny weather.  I was quite pleased that I successfully managed to navigate the hire car to our hotel without the use of a map

We spent what remained of the afternoon doing the standard tourist cable car ride from Market St to Fisherman's Wharf, and then wandering around the various piers and shops there.  It was noticeable that many of the up-market shops that had been around on previous trips were no longer there, and several others had closing down notices.  So the recession is really biting here it would seem.  Had an early night as still not feeling too great.