San Francisco (3) – Other outings
We took a “Hop on-Hop off” bus on our free day to see various sites of the city. We were interested in the Haight & Ashbury section of town because of activities there in the 1960’s. We hiked around Presidio Park and then walked across the Golden Gate Bridge. We stopped at Fisherman’s Wharf–among the crowds. We even visited Musee Mecanique (Mechanical Museum) which is one of the world’s largest privately owned collections of mechanically operated musical instruments and antique arcade machines. For a quarter we could play an old player piano, race two bicycles around a track or play any number of other arcade games! Throughout our visit we were fascinated by the steep hills, variety of architecture, fog, and food. (On one street we determined that from the top of the block to the bottom of that block was a difference of five building floor levels!)
