San Francisco RV Resort, Pacifica, CA:  Today we drove the PCH north of San Francisco.  Got on the 101 and then Rt. 1 which eventually ends up on 19^th Street on the western side of San Francisco.  So, you’re basically on city streets.  But it’s three lanes and we’ll be fine when we leave with the fifth wheel.  Drove over the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time this trip.  I drove over it back in 1982, but it bothered me a lot.  Not sure why, because going over it today wasn’t bad at all.  Of course I wasn’t driving.  After exiting the Golden Gate we took the first exit for Rt. 1.  And the road was incredibly windy and twisty.  Had some gorgeous vistas, but no place to stop and take pictures.  Drove up only to the cute little town of Tamales and turned around, because we passed a place in Tamales Bay that the owner of a restaurant in Santa Barbara where we ate one night highly recommended—Nick’s Cove in Tamales Bay.  So we went back there and had lunch with a view of what we thought was a lake, but it’s an inlet off the Pacific.  There were some cottages on the shore and some floating docks, but what good is this place.  You can’t swim.  The water temps are in the 50s.  But we had an incredible lunch.  I had Dungeness crab eggs benedict and Mike had a dozen oysters on the half shell from different areas in the Bay.  After lunch we decided to take the Marshall-Petaluma road over to Petaluma and get the 101.  It took so long to travel the 40 or so miles on the PCH that we decided to take the 101 back.  We went through some cute little towns though—like Dogtown, population 30. and Tamales, another cute little town.  Like stepping back in time.  Some of the buildings I’m sure go back 100 years.  We were going to do Muir Woods and Tiburon today also but ran out of time.  As it was, we hit rush hour traffic again in SF.  Fortunately, most of it was going the other way.  Back to our site on the bluff overlooking the Pacific and sat out and read for a while, listening to the waves pounding the beach.  Then had dinner at a little Italian restaurant in a strip mall just down the road.  Temps were all over the place today.  63 down by the water and 80 up in the hills.

Going over the Golden Gate

The little inlet we thought was a lake.  The great white sharks breed here in the winter.

The traffic coming out of SF into Marin County.