The beginning of our round trip - foggy San Francisco

I managed to pack my stuff, which took me very long time. I told bye to my friends (btw. even to John and Tim, with who I had an argument couple days ago) and could head to Omaha to stay in my friend's house over night and in the morning fly through Las Vegas to San Francisco.

So, that's the crack, as the Irish with who are we traveling would say. We (5 Czechs + 3 Irish + one British) spent three days in San Francisco and tonight we are staying in our friend's house in Davis near Sacramento. Rudy is our Dutch friend who studied with us in fall semester in Lincoln and for the spring semester he moved to California to finish his study abroad with studying at University of California, Davis.

What to say about San Francisco? I can't get rid of the comparison with Lisbon in Portugal. San Francisco is as Lisbon located on the hills, it's mostly white colored, there are riding the similar trams across the city and the city is lying on the coast of the ocean and is connected with opposite coast with long bridges exactly as Lisbon. Last but not least San Fran is much more European than other American cities. But what differs San Fran from Lisbon are fogs. There are there almost all the time. And the pride of SF - the Golden Gate Bridge is most of time covered by fog.

San Fran is liberal city. Much more liberal, than for example Nebraska, when I spent this year. In SF there is a big gay and lesbian community. They have here even their own part of the city - Castro. The freedom you can experience just when you are buying the alcohol - mostly they don't ask you for your ID, which would be in Nebraska unimaginable.

Lots of people are excited of living in San Francisco. I say, it's a beautiful city, but for me, it's something between American and European city. And why to make a compromise, when I can live either in American or European city? However, definitely I wanna come back one day...

So, what's the plan for upcoming days? Yosemite National Park, Death Valley, Sequoya Nat. Park... As soon as I get online I'll let you know how it's going...