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The Golden Gate Park – De Young Museum -Tutankhamun Exhibition San Francisco

Thursday, August 13th, 2009 at 3:40 pm  
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I am really looking forward to today. We are going to the de Young Museum to see the ‘TUT’ exhibition. The story of  mystery and magic surrounding the life and death of the boy king ‘Tutankahem’ has always been a favorite of mine. We head into Union Square and then down to the Visitors Information Centre to find out how to get to the Golden Gate Park. We had missed the 10:30am hop on hop off bus which only goes twice a day to the park. An elderly gentleman behind the counter casually waved in some direction and said catch…

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CitySightseeing The Golden Gate Park, Haight Ashbury,

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 at 7:50 am  
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Being gluttons for punishment we continue to drive around San Francisco on an open top bus in the freezing cold and after arriving back at Leavenworth St we catch the downtown loop bus to as we were going to go and see the Tutankhamen exhibition at the De Young Museum in the Golden Gate Park. But in the end we changed our minds and will do that tomorrow. Our tour guide was so interesting we preferred to stay on the bus and hear what she had to say. Plus I was looking forward to driving through the Haight – Ashbury…

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CitySightseeing – the Golden Gate Bridge, Sausaltio, the Palace of Fine Arts

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 at 7:41 am  
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Today is cold and windy, and of course this is the day we have decided to take the bus over the Golden Gate Bridge and go onto to Sausalito. The Bridge is cloaked in fog but the view is not too bad. There are a couple of new tours since Paula and I were here last year and the Golden Gate Bridge and Sausalito is one of them, although you can just do the bridge tour if you wish. Our ride is a converted school bus and we sit in the uncovered section in the back, probably not the smartest…

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