San Francisco

«The main thing – to do all quickly. You run up, you jump, you beat out to yourself a place!» – the Chinese woman from whom we together wait for a tram explains to me of a pleasant kind. By a tram I imagined the trip first in San Francisco a little more romantically: I in хиповом a dress with colours in hair, and, certainly, play a background a melody «If you are going to San Francisco …» «All our become history trams are pleasant, – Whether laughs, – therefore they are always filled to the footboard. And still it is always cheerful!»
I stand on Union Square (the Union area) in the centre of a business city district. Before me luxurious shopping centre Saks Fifth Avenue is located, at the left attracts shop of the exciting underwear Victoria’s Secret, three next quarters in any direction consist exclusively of shops, bars, cafe and restaurants – for all tastes and the size of a purse. Truly paradise!

I just reflect on with what me to begin: from a campaign in ballet, from coffee with rolls or from cosmetics purchase, – as from round the corner turns out with jingling a tram. It goes in the area of Powell-Hyde which goes down downwards, to a gulf of San Francisco (San Francisco Bay). I postpone purchases on then and I break in a way. A resolute jump, and I extract to myself a scrap of a footboard in the size 10 on 10 centimetres. Perfectly well! The trip delivers the pleasure sea because the road goes that upwards downwards – the city was erected on 47 hills. At first we are carried by along the street Powell Street and by the Chajna-town. It is the biggest Chinese quarter in the USA and simultaneously the present treasury for fans of exotic Asian features, fantastic noodles and amusing medical products from love melancholy, a cellulitis and a lack of money (round with the guide: www.wokwiz.com, 33? For 3 hours). Then трамвайчик turns on street Hyde Street.

From here the island-prison Alkatras is visible. With 1934 for 1963 such criminals as Al Capone, and today it is possible to get acquainted with their terrible stories during audioround (the ticket there were in prison, including the ferry and hire of a player with the cartridge: 14?). To the left of island it sparkles on the sun – Golden Gate Bridge (the bridge of Golden Gate). The basic characteristics: it is constructed 67 years ago, length of 2,7 km, width of 27 m, the height of a surface part of both support makes the whole 227 m.

After several days of shopping and entertainments I hire the car and I go on the south. The most picturesque site of line Highway Number One begins in 180 km from San Francisco near Monterrey. At first the road passes by high sandy dunes, then the coast becomes stony. The line narrow bends curls among woods from stone pines (the Italian pines) and small places with motley wooden small houses (council: we do a stop in Karmele, coastal small town with faultlessly white sandy beach – Klint Eastwood was here the mayor). Then the landscape varies: trees of red wood in height to 100 m border the road, the rocks cut up by crevices are replaced by infinite sandy coasts. Behind everyone to turns you are waited by a new fascinating kind of storming Pacific ocean.