Day 1 - July 5 - San Francisco

Mason Street Cable Car

We arrived at LAX after a 14 hour flight and were corralled through endless queues and rope lanes to finally get the passport stamp of approval. After rechecking our luggage we made our way to the terminal for the San Francisco leg.

Poster

The flight was delayed but uneventful. Charlotte and I were separated and she had the good fortune to fall asleep. I sat next to a very lovely but chatty woman from LA and did not get any sleep.

Once at SFO, the carousel indicator failed to show our flight and we were monitoring the wrong carousel.

 Charlotte found her luggage and mine was in the unclaimed luggage office.

We finally got out of the airport and took a shuttle to the King George Hotel on Mason Street. See: www.kinggeorge.com

Macy's

Summer of Love at Macy's

The hotel was comfortable with twin beds and located near the cable car turnaround in Union Square.

We walked the local area, looked in on a few shops and took in the amazing architecture.

Charlotte made her second purchase of the trip which was a heavily discounted Kate Spade iphone cover at Macy's to complement her first purchase which was a new iphone 7 at Sydney Airport Duty Free.

Department store

We were adjusting to the new time zone so had a wakeful period around 3am but slept in until 11am the next day.