Postcard row. Or The Painted Ladies. Or home for the people who live there. Call them what you want.
Daniel's Backyard
Palm tree
Daniel's jade plant
I can't get over how lush and green this place is.
San Francisco skyline at night
Our home away from home
The view from Daniel's back door.
Overhead power lines for the electric buses.
An electric bus
The architecture in this city is unbelievable.
A really rare coffee machine. Only one of three in the world.
Union Square. This is like San Francisco's Fifth Ave.
The cable care turnaround.
Turning around.
A cable car on the cable car turn around.
Our cable car after it turned around about to head up the hill.
Going up the hill on the cable car. Herbie Car Mimi.
On the cable car as we topped the hill. What a view.
The view from the cable car. If you look real hard you can see Alcatraz in the bay.
The phenomenal Vietnamese food we had.
Some Vietnamese guy who wanted me to take his picture with my camera. I don't know why.
Alcatraz from the wharf.
Guess.
A not so great picture of me and Mom and Dad.
Fisherman's Wharf.
Two sea lions fighting.
He knew that his picture was being taken.
A sleeping sea lion. Look at the drool.
Aren't they cute?
Check it out. I am a sea lion. Take my picture.
The famous sea lions.
More sea lions. You couldn't help but take their picture.
Coit Tower and the Transamerican Pyramid.
San Francisco skyline from the wharf.
Sea lions, the wharf, and the skyline.
I am sorry but this is just beautiful.
The golden Gate Bridge. Never mind the glare.
Oil tanker sailing past Alcatraz.
Double-decker seagulls.
The wonderful restaurant we ate at on the wharf.
A store for left handed people. Now I have seen it all!
A crazy fire guy.
Daniel walking out to graduate.
President of SFAI
Daniel's Dept. Head
This is a really funny GUY!
Daniel getting his diploma.
Here you go.
A hug from the President.
Thank God!
The Pelt men have great legs.
Transamerican Pyramid
Drying clothes.
Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill.
Cruise Ship at the wharf
Alcatraz is in that fog.
Girls dancing in the courtyard at SFAI.
Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill
Skyline from the roof of SFAI
Roof of SFAI
Skylights in the courtyard on the roof of SFAI.
Roof/courtyard at SFAI
San Francisco Bay, Fisherman's Wharf and North Shores.
Me
Mom
Sailboats on the bay.
A picture of my dad taking a picture.
The construction of the new Bay Bridge
Umm...
Lombard St.
"Most Crookedest" street in the U.S.
You guess.
Also the most pointless street in the U.S.
Why does it seam like everything is uphill?
Daniel's school. San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). Its the one with the bell tower.
An old cable car at the Cable Car Museum.
Cable car cable.
Wheels that move the cables through the streets.
They run 19 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Wheels in motion.
Always learning something new.
The Oakland Bay Bridge.
Grace Cathedral. This doesn't do it justice.
A funny named restaurant.
Golden Gate Bridge in the fog.
South Pier
South end of the bridge.
North Pier with a sailboat.
Me looking out at the bridge.
Me looking at the camera.
On the bridge.
It seemed to disappear into nothing.
You learned to love the fog.
North end of the bridge.
Me, Mom, and The Golden Gate Bridge.
Me and Dad in front of the bridge.
The whole pelt family.
The tunnel going north.
The north business end of the bridge.
Robin Williams home.
A wind mill.
The Pacific Ocean
The mountains of northern California.
Wind carved cliffs along the coast.
Pacific Coast cliffs.
A cave carved out by the ocean.
Kite Surfing
Pacifica Ave. in Santa Cruz.
The boardwalk in Santa Cruz.
The roller coaster at the boardwalk.
The boardwalk.
Where we played putt putt.
Daniel doing business.
A hole in the wall coffee shop. Literally.
City Hall
U.S. Federal Building. The most green building in the city. It generates more energy than it uses each day.
Two great minds hard at work.
"F Line"
Fog City Diner
On our way to The Rock.
The city from the boat.
The Oakland Bay Bridge
The old part of the Bay Bridge.
Light house and warden's house.
Alcatraz's power plant.
The dock
The dock guard tower.
City in the fog.
The remnants of the Indian Occupation of the island.
Sally Port. It was built during the Civil War.
A canon from the Civil War Fort Alcatraz.
The Officer's Club. WWII era. It was used up until the prison was closed. It was destroyed by fire during the Indian Occupation.
A neat tree and the "O Club"
Water Tower
The vegetation on the island was beautiful.
The island is a protected bird sanctuary.
Guard Tower
Looking up at the cell-house.
Issue room.
The only light that came in came in through bars.
B Block
A key that hung from the gun gallery.
This was where the key was stolen that started The Great Riot. 8 inmates were killed and 5 officers were murdered.
Daniel on the yard.
The view from outside the yard wall.
Looking down to the Industries Building and the New Industries Building.
The famous yard steps.
D Block. Home to Al Capone, The Birdman, and the hole.
Windows in D Block.
The outside of "The Hole" Or solitary confinement.
Looking out of "The Hole".
Mom and Dad taking the audio tour.
Cell 403. Where the 5 officers were murdered in cold blood.
Some art from the island.
An artists cell.
Michigan Ave. in B Block.
Indians changed the sign. How ironic.
The Control Room.
Control panels in the Control Room.
Where the escape happened.
The other cell that was escaped from.
The service corridor that the escapees used to climb to the roof.
Rows of cells on Michigan Ave.
The menu for the last meal ever served on The Rock.
Tear gas dispenser in the dining room. They were never used.
From the bow of our boat looking back towards the city.
The barracks, the wardens house, and the light house.
The Transamerican Pyramid.
Chinatown.
More Chinatown.
A street lamp in Chinatown.
A bank in Chinatown.
I had to take this picture. I couldn't help it.
The Apple Store.
The "F Line"