San Francisco, California

After saying goodbye to the last of the USA's fantastic national parks on our itinerary, we began our drive towards San Francisco.

The Good Luck Parking Garage in Chinatown, where every parking spot comes with a stencilled fortune. San Francisco's Chinatown is the largest outside of Asia and, established in the 1840s, the oldest in the USA.
View of the city from the Coit Tower.
Murals inside the Coit Tower.
View of San Francisco Bay from the Filbert St steps.
Alcatraz.
Pier 39 on Fisherman's Wharf, home to hundreds of sea lions.
Sea lions basking in the San Fran sun.
Golden Gate Bridge.
MC...
...and John crossing the bridge.
View of the city from the Golden Gate Bridge.

1970s political murals lining Balmy Alley in the Mission district of the city.
The murals are painted on people's garages and walls.

Alamo Square, lined with brightly-painted Victorian houses.

We also got to see another side of San Francisco thanks to the dodgy location of our hotel - crackhead, drunk and homeless central...

Having now driven coast-to-coast, we are setting off south down the Pacific Coastal Highway towards our final destination - Los Angeles!