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Highway 101 on the way from the airport into downtown San Francisco. 

We are all traveling about 80 mph.  It is Saturday afternoon, on a beautiful day, so I guess we are all really in a hurry to get somewhere really exciting.

All intersections in downtown San Francisco looked like this near my hotel.  It was Saturday afternoon, and traffic was totally jammed up.

My hotel, the Argent, on the right.  I'm shooting from the Musconi center.  My room is about half way up the front on the center right. 

The Argent is a bit upscale for me, but my ace travel agent cyndi-travel@gci.net got a good deal for me.  The service was good, the bathrooms clean, and I really liked the floor-to-ceiling windows in the rooms. 

My cable car motorman.  The car is empty because this is early Sunday morning before tourists.  The day is clear, sunny, and warm.  I have truly lucked out.

Cable car gears and works.  Basically three levers; one to grasp the cable; one to stop the car; and one emergency brake (lower left).

We are going up Powell, about to cross Bush, on our way to Fisherman's Wharf.

Another cable car coming our way from Williams street turning onto Powell.

The famous Winding street (actually Lombard street) going down in a very twisty fashion toward the Coit Tower on the hill ahead to the right.

We are about to head down a very steep pitch.  Alcatraz is in the Bay ahead of us.

Headed down toward Fisherman's Wharf.  The sail powered whaler "Balclutha," now a tourist attraction, is ahead to the left.

Another view of the "Balclutha" from Golden Gate Park.

Apparently these seals showed up a couple of years ago, and have been here since.

The scratch and yawn, they bark, they fight, they both disturb the locals, and delight tourists, and are generally pretty obnoxious, though probably not worse than the panhandlers on Market street and the Mission District.  Official San Francisco has not yet figured out what to do with them.

In Chinatown on the 49 mile Scenic Drive.

Looking west toward the Golden Gate from Coit Tower.

The Bay Bridge and the Embarcadaro.

Alcatraz from Coit Tower.  I don't know who the statue represents.  The tower itself was built by a woman name Coit to memorialize San Francisco fire fighters.

Treasure Island from Coit Tower.

Army officer housing on the Presidio.

Looking across a golf course on the Presidio toward the Golden Gate.

Seal Rock and Public beach on the Pacific Ocean.

San Francisco City Hall where my good friend Colleen works.

The grand staircase in the San Francisco City Hall.

Staircase landing, City Hall.