Day 4 – More on the road and San Francisco

So we stayed the night at a little town called Morro Bay. We rolled up at like 8pm so it was really dark when we got there. So this morning when the sun came out I explored a bit and was quite pleasantly surprised at how beautiful this little town is. Right on the coast, theres a pleasant sea breeze that comes in at all times. By the docks theres a little platform out in the sea with some seals yelling all the morning. No idea what type of seals they are though. Just outside of Morro Bay though there are a few attractions. One of them is Hearst Castle. From the bartender dude at the restaurant the night before, he said that some guy had started building this castle but never finished it. There are tours there now. No idea what the place is really. We rocked up saw it from afar and went away. Neither of us had any interest in it :P However about 4.5miles further down the road there are the Elephant seals. Fat lazy seals that lie there doing nothing. I must admit im rather surprised at seeing how many of them there are there. Must be almost a hundred of them squeezed onto this tiny beach. Definitely worth a stop. Which also applies to the coastal pacific highway as a whole. There are some spectacular scenery along the way. We stopped off at this little cafe around Big Spur? Which had some spectacular food as well Cafe Khava is the places name. GREAT FOOD! One thing I really dont like about the coastal road however is that it has no phone reception at all. Was rather hard to keep in touch. I guess the problem is that if there was an emergency... ah well.

So everything is bigger then I you'd expect here. The cars are huge, food portions huge, same as drinks sizes... even the bloody seagulls here are huge! They must be 50% larger then the ones at home. It's ridiculous!

Alright so lets talk about San Francisco. Coming up from Los Angeles I have to say that the city is so much better. LA is like a ghetto – a hole compared to San Francisco. It's a lot cleaner and newer. What we saw when we first entered was a lot more maintained and just had a better overall appearance. It just makes me like this city more and more. However the clincher seems to have been when we got to Chinatown. Getting off that bus and coming face to face with it – it was like going back to Hong Kong! The whole atmosphere, all the people speaking cantonese, the shops even the buildings itself lent it an air that just shouted Hong Kong. Stopping by for a snack of egg tarts and pineapple bun reinforced it. The Milk Tea was delicious and tastedlike it would in HK too.

The finniest thing was when we walked into this restaurant for dinner, we both had this nostalgic feeling. The décor and the atmosphere of the restaurant was like that of this place we used to go to with our grand parents... it was weird... We had to order the same dishes just to make it more nostalgic...

So we rounded out the night with some photo taking at night. Was quite fun actually trying to take some nice night photos. Hopefully will be able to find time to load them up soon. On our way back to our hotel though we passed through this combination Lygon St and King St of San Fran. There were a lot of these italian restaurants and cafe's along this stretch of the road. Really nice place, had some great gelato there too. However as I said it was also like King St back home... and when we were walking past this... let us say... gentleman's club, the security guard asked us “You gentlemen want to see the real side of San Francisco?” Was quite funny actually. Anyway... that rounds out the night I guess