San Franciso

26 April 2012

Four days in San Franciso and its been FAN-TAS-TIC.
We have had gorgeous hot sunny days every day so far.
We arrived on Thursday 26th after leaving New Zealand on Thursday 26th so we got two thursdays for the price of one! After a lovley welcome and family dinner we managed to stay up til about 10pm San Francisco local time but then had to give in to the jet lag. 

Friday 27 2012 

Today Melissa took us up to Sonoma to see Jack fly his plane. We watched this great old plane take off and land and Kevin went up for a short flight. We have the landing on film, strong cross winds and a close shave of the trees on the landing. We then then went to Sonoma and then onto a new Mexican eatery that had been written up that morning in the San Francisco Chronicle .... Melissa had her finger on the pulse and took us to the new hot spot, it was great! Mexican in New Zealand just dosent cut it compared to his.  Then off to a very special invitation from Kevin to the San Francisco Yacht Club in Tiburon for Graham to crew on a very special boat, Yucca, a 75 year old 8 metre class race boat.  It was Yucca's 75th anniversay and it had a anniversay spinnaker made for the occasion.  A gorgeous evening. The guys went sailing and the gals enjoyed a vino in the yacht club.

Some photos that captured the occasion

Kevin and Graham out on San Francisco harbour.  Spot the chap under their armpits!

Over and out for now, more to follow.

Sunset from Raumati South beach

Just one of the many gorgeous sunsets we experienced from Raumati Sth beach.

Not long now folks.... re weighed the pack today and decided to send a package on via Post Restante to Santiago de Compostela so we can ditch our daggy gear for some fresh gear without lugging it over the miles.

Weighed the first aid kit... its 1kg but all worth it....


XXx

A budding pilgrim

 This is our last weekend in Wellington.
 Next Saturday we head to  Auckland and then the following Thursday off to San Francisco, then Paris and aiming to start our Camino Wednesday 9th May.

We'll be posting updates when we come to wi-fi spots.

Getting really excited now, ticking off all the preparation tasks and doing some training walks.......need to do more with our packs fully loaded up!
Thanks to everyone for all the encouragement and support and wonderful farewells.

Enjoying Waikanae beach for a few more days yet