Well, not exactly Alcatraz! We decided to go to San Francisco and stay over night. That way we could walk all day and not have to face the drive home in traffic when we were tired. We headed off from…
Day 14: Too Hot for Cache
We had planned to visit an aunt then when the heat of the day was over go caching, hopefully at the Quicksilver Mines area at New Almaden. However it was hot. Very hot. We visited TS, but soon after leaving…
Day 11: Pinnacles
When some plans for the day fell through, we wound up heading down to Pinnacles National Monument for some bushwalking and geocaching. As we hadn’t planned the trip and just went on the spur of the moment, we wound up…
Day 5B: Arrival in California
Ahh – arrival on solid ground, where we are able to walk, go to the toilet, put our elbows anywhere we’d like, even bend and unbend our legs!
Day 5A: Sayonara Tokyo
Woke up and showered again (in the hot and humid Tokyo, this is an event exciting enough to note!), then sadly packed up.
Day 4: In Search of Edo
We had read an interesting sounding walk in Lonely Planet, which takes you to Nippori through a neighbourhood that, unlike most of Tokyo, wasn’t heavily bombed in the Second World War – so you get a feeling for what Edo…