Sunday, August 3, 2014

day 2: gilroy and san francisco

We left Monterey for Gilroy, which is famous for its annual garlic festival. We missed the festival by a few days, but we stopped anyway and bought some garlic and smoked garlic olives. 

From there, we headed up to San Francisco, where we took a break and ate some ice cream at Bi-Rite Creamery, which I recently saw on this list of 27 ice cream places in the world that you have to visit. It was well worth the stop and it was quite possibly the best ice cream I'd ever eaten in my life, which I guess is why it was on this list anyway.

After our break, we wove our way through the streets of San Francisco to the Golden Gate bridge. 
 

Before driving across it, we stopped at the viewing area to first walk across part of it. 
It was really windy, and I will admit that it was cold and we were underdressed.


  
We saw fewer palm trees in central and northern California, and instead, we saw a lot of these trees:
After San Francisco, we headed north to Redding to stay the night. 

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