Author: Leïla

The SF Bay Trail is a 500-mile trail for walkers and cyclists that runs around the SF Bay. Part of it goes from he AT&T Park to the Golden Gate Bridge, permitting to see a great deal of the city without leaving the shore. That was my first day’s plan in SF. I left from the Caltrain station and followed the coast up to Fort Mason passing along the piers and Ghirardelli Square (which used the be the headquarters of the “famous” chocolate factory) and then came back through some of the famous steep streets and Telegraph Hill.

The trip from Albuquerque to San Francisco takes approximately 27h30 by bus, passing through three different states and two main cities; Phoenix and Los Angeles. It is a long trip but also an opportunity to see beautiful landscapes and meet people from all kinds of backgrounds (e.g. former detainee, family moving to a new life, Jamaican moving from Mexico to the US, people visiting family, students full of energy and ideas,…)
Unfortunately, sometimes buses get problems… That’s when you have to wait a few hours in a small city called Modesto. But even though Californian people will tell you that’s lost in the middle of nowhere, at least a film has been set there; “American Graffiti“!