Day 37: Muir Woods & San Francisco

On Monday we enjoyed nice breakfast at our hotel and started slowly heading towards San Francisco. Our first stop was on the "wrong side" of Golden Gate to visit the Muir Woods, an ancient forest that has been turned to a National Monument. It was relatively busy there also, on the website the recommendation was to visit early in the morning on a weekday, we did our best to adhere.

The woods were really beautiful, filled with trees older than 2000 years. The forest was mainly of california red wood, and it felt like only thing missing were the dinosaurs. We enjoyed hours just walking in the forest and the further we went the more quieter it got so that you could just hear the birds around you. Really cool place!

After Muir we drove on serpentine roads and found the Golden Gate with remains of an old fortification. We took some touristy pictures of the bridge, Alcatraz and San Francisco. After this we took the bridge to reach SF ($6 per time!). Our hotel is located just around the corner of Union Square. After changing rooms once (the smell of tobacco was not exactly what we were looking for...) and walking to the car and back 6 times to get everything unloaded, it was time to handover the car. After 36 days we saw some cool places, drove around 8000 miles and did this all with our trusted Chrysler 200. The farewell was short but sentimental :) Feels really strange to not jump to the car in the morning, take the map out and start thinking where should we head next.

36 days worth of American insects in the front

For the evening we found an excellent sushi place with few tables, and enjoyed good sashimi, avocado and California rolls. More of this!!