Saturday, 3 May
We are to meet Barbara at the Ferry Terminal in the City where there is a Farmer’s Market. My trustee parking permit gets us a place right outside the building which is great. We start out before Barbara gets there but She eventually find us. What a Farmer’s Market it was – it is easily the biggest I have seen by miles with lots of interesting stalls.
Barbara has booked lunch for us in a restaurant in the terminal building. It is Slanted Door, a Vietnamese fusion type of restaurant. Julie might have preferred just going around the shops all afternoon but any way there we were.
The menu looks very interesting and is designed for sharing plates.
Those were the best Crab that I had on the entire trip.
It was a pretty good lunch, as I said I loved the Crab noodles.
San Francisco has replaced the Old Bay Bridge, built a new one and is in the process of tearing down the old one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco-Oakland_Bay_Bridge
As we leave the City we decide to take a stop at Treasure Island.
When we try to go home, the exit is blocked off and we have to get back on the bridge and drive all the way into the City before we can get back going the right way. We decide we will go look around Berkeley – the City and the campus. I had never been there before so it was quite interesting Very hilly. We decided that we would eat at home tonight as we will be on the road from tomorrow until the end of the trip. So, we stop by the Berkely Bowl to pick up produce for dinner, one of the largest stores, especially for produce, that I have ever seen.
Tom drives us up to the top of the hills for the view and then we head home. Dinner is left overs plus the stuff from BB. Off to bed, because we are traveling tomorrow.