USA Day 8: Lombard Street

The trip to SF is never complete without experiencing the cable car. Well, it's good for an experience, but nothing more than that. It is over crowded, slow and expensive! Yes, $5 per single trip ride, but we have our 3 day muni pass that covers unlimited cable rides. It was so crowded that it is almost impossible to hop on board from our hotel station. We gotta take a ride down to the terminal, and get back up from there.

Nonetheless, after all the hustle. The cable rumbles us to the famous Lombard street - America's crookedest street. The steep, hilly street was created with sharp curves to switchback down the one-way hill past beautiful Victorian mansions.





We were thinking about doing a last minute shopping at Chinatown along Grant Street before we fly off to LA tonight. But we have a nice surprise on our way there, we saw a real crowded street and quickly alighted the bus. This is Stockton Street. I will say this is the real Chinatown! What we were presented at Grant Street were souvenir shops, catered for the tourist. Over here, you can find the real local people, doing their weekend grocery shopping. There is even Lion Dances, not sure what was the occasion though.

We manage to those American Ginseng stuff and a very competitive price. Ginseng sweets, tea, powder etc.... Strawberries is so fresh and cheap! Huge boxes at a third of the price you paid in Singapore.

Its time to say goodbye to SF, and we took a cab to the airport at 6pm in the evening to catch our flight to LA. This is where the biggest surprise unfold.... Papa made a wrong booking for the air tickets. The flight was 750am!!! Luckily for us, there is a flight to LA that night at 850pm, and the kind customer service staff from Alaska manage to get us 3 tickets for no extra charge.