We're really enjoying San Francisco, it's a great city. Favourite thing so far here? It's got to be hanging off the side of a cable car as it trundles up and down the hills - definitely the most fun way of getting round a city that I've seen! They've been around since the 1870s and while there used to be lines all over the city, now there are just three. It seems to be a pretty tricky job operating them (the 'grip man'). It wasn't until 1998 that a woman finally qualified to drive one, having built up the requisite upper body strength!
We walked round some different areas of the city, and went to see the famous 'crooked street' - Lombard Street. There are a constant stream of cars coming down it - wonder if they include it on the driving test around here!
Also went to a really interesting little museum with a great collection of coin opertated games and machines from the past century. I paid 25 cents to take a look at one of the original silent movies from the early 1900s - bargain.
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