SF - Golden Gate Bridge Biking

After the Flea Market/Gilroy/Great Mall shopping trip on Saturday, the next day I went to San Francisco aiming to bike the bridge!

Lombard Street - 'The Crookedest Street in the World' because of its eight sharp turns on a 40-degree slope.

You know what?! I have vowed before that if one day I had the chance to go to California, I must go to San Francisco and Sausalito. I have watched too many of the San Francisco scenes in movies. The scenes of Sausalito in "一见钟情" (Sausalito) 2000 by Leon Lai and Maggie Cheung planted deep in my mind.

I also listened to many songs related to 'California' . I was once crazy over the song "California Dreaming" by The Mamas & Papas (background music in the movie of Chung King Express 重庆森林 1994) and of course "Hotel California" by The Eagles. How could you not knowing this song right?!

I also got to see how a chinese female student (pursuing a PHD degree from UCLA) 's style was through the Lambir project back in uni time. 浸过美国加州的水, fascinated me.

So......How could I have possibly missed the San Francisco streets when I was here. Those up and down slopes have already been visualized in my mind for so long until today I finally got the chance to step on it. ha!

I biked the bridge! I rented a bike (USD23.00) for one day to cycle from Fisherman's Wharf -> Golden Gate -> Sausalito.

I cycled past a park.

On the same day there was a marathon event held there.


I cycled past this. Palace of Fine Arts / Exploratorium in San Francisco. On land originally belonging to the Presidio, the Palace of Fine Arts was built in 1915 for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Today the site, which belongs to the City of San Francisco, features a classical Roman rotunda with curved colonnades in an idyllic park setting.

There you go the Golden Gate. Before this the cycle route was mainly along the coast line and I truly enjoyed it. The breeze is so cooling and refreshing. That time I thought, "Hmm...if back in Penang we can have have such kind of cold weather then syiok loh. Cycling whole day also no sweat one leh!". I started to regret after this stop because there were a few uphills later on which required me to use the lowest gear, oh mine! I have already stopped cycling for so long and this was really killing me you know. Somemore it's NOON. It's noon time oi!