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US 101 Bayshore Freeway approaching San Francisco from the south

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The freeway diverts to the City Center and the San Francisco Bay Bridge

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The US 101 runs directly into the main streetareas

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Typical cable car, with passengers standing on the outside platforms

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Cable car with the Grip Man in front (he grabs onto the steel cable running in a slot in the street)

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Tourist bus

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A view across many of San Francisco hills

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High rises on Nob Hill

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The iconic clock tower

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The iconic Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill, 64 m tall - at the end of the Lombard street

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Another San Francisco icon - the winding Lombard street that every tourist has to drive down

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The cars coming down

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Hyde street, with tracks for cable cars. Our son was baptized at the Norwegisn Seaman Church right here

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The cable car to Market street

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Motor cycles for sale

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A modern office building

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Another icon - the Fisherman's Wharf

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The small harbor, used by active fishermen and pleasure craft

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Many shops all around the open space

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The restaurant Fisherman's Grotto

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Street scene

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Alitoto's, a well known restaurant

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A man preparing sea food - crabs and lobsters

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Street musicians

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The terminal for the ferry across San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island

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Another view of the busy harbor

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Glass art II

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Glass art III

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Entrance to the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park

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A small pagoda

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A Buddha statue is present

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A stone foot bridge across a stream

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Looking west to the vast Pacific Ocean

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The iconic Golden Gate Bridge. It has a span of 1230 m, towers are 280 m, and was opened in 1937

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Normally 3 lanes in each direction, but that changes during the rush hours

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View from a south viewing point just north of the Golden Gate Park

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A piece of a redwood log (from a little north of the bridge) washed ashore

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View of the bridge from the hills to the west

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Looking south to the San Francisco Bay

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Alcatraz Island

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The Oakland San Francisco Bay Bridge

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The San Leandro Bay bridge further south across the bay