Giants Stadium, Mythbusters and Sausalito

Today was a great day. A really fun day and a good way to end our week here in San Francisco.

We basically did a big lap around the city. We started out by driving along Lombard Street (that really famous windy one) down to the Embarcadero then round the edge of the bay to AT & T stadium again.

Here we stopped not for the shop but to take some photos of the stadium. On the left is one shot, showing the large stone baseballs that lead you towards the stadium just the other side of the water. I am very keen now to see if I can get to watch the 2009 MLB season back in Australia now. I'll have to find out if you can watch it live on the web and hook it up to our TV perhaps... anyway, on with the trip.

Next we drove down 3rd Street to Cesar Chavez and left on Missouri St to the home of Mythbusters. I’ve always been a huge fan of the show since the early days when Buster used to get blown up and thrown off the top of the M5 Industries building, so I was understandably eager to pay a visit to the location where it all started.

The building was a lot smaller than I imagined, and despite the lack of any actual Mythbusters and shutters down on the doors and windows (well it is Sunday) there were still some tell-tale signs that Mythbusting had happened around us.

Firstly the M5 Industries sign gave our location away, but I was also very happy to see the ‘Mythbus’ standing outside. Upon closer inspection inside the bus I could see some equipment still in there including a motor from what looked like a household drill with the name “Savage” written in permanent marker on it. So nice to be so close to something that Adam and Jamie had built and something that I will now be searching the internet for videos of.

After a little walk around the lot we got back in the car and drove North towards the Golden Gate Bridge to make our way back to Sausalito where we were yesterday. On the way Carla fell asleep in her chair still holding the avocado and sardine sandwich that she started back at M5.

Over the bridge and down the hill and we were back in Sausalito. We found a great little café on the seafront and enjoyed some hummous dip and a couple of sandwiches, with a side of fries of course. Carla had a little bit of everything, and then most of our strawberry smoothie as well.

After that we had a little tour round the shops, bought some lollies for the trip tomorrow and then let Carla have a run around the little park and fountain in the middle of the main street and parking area.

We took a walk down to the seafront and posed for a few final photos (shown here) which will probably be our last here in San Francisco. The weather was perfect for it - clear blue skies and a cooling breeze off the ocean.

All in all a really perfect day to end our week in this city that we have quickly grown to like a lot. If Sydney ever doesn't work out, or if aviation requires a US base then we would be over here like a shot.

Tomorrow we're driving back to LA.