January 30th, 2010
Bar Hopping in San Francisco
After arriving here at the San Francisco airport, we collected our bags and found the train the heads into the city. The ticket machine was pretty complicated, which we found unusual, because usually how most of the ticket machines around the world are where you put in your money first and then start reducing the value until you get down to how much the fare is. Fortunately, the ticket machine always has a staff person on hand to aid with people like us, foreigners.
We got on the train that goes to the Union Square area, which is in the northern part of the city. We walked to the cheap hotel in San Francisco, where we had made reservations on-line. We really liked our accommodations and the location. After checking in we, headed right back out and walked around the Union Square area, then we went back to the area around our hotel and had dinner at this great little cafe that was next door. The food was pretty good.
Then we headed out to see what San Francisco’s night-life is like. We found a very funky and trendy bar not for from our hotel, The Owl Tree. The bar’s not big, but it’s very nice. After having a few drinks, we went to another bar that seemed liked it belonged in England, a pub, but it was too quiet for our tastes. We walked a bit more and came upon Lefty O’Doul’s Irish bar. There were tons of baseball pictures and we ended up spending the rest of the night there. We chatted with a couple of women from Australia and a ton of New Yorkers. The one man band, on keyboard, was rather funny and very entertaining, we really appreciated his non-PC sense of humor. When we left the bar, we were really glad not to be driving, we were pretty sloshed. We did make it back to our hotel without incident. Not bad for our first half day in San Francisco.