Petaluma January 3 thru 7th

January 4th~~~~When the storm let up in the morning we decided to get some stamps in our National Park Passport that is around the San Francisco area. Point Reyes was a short distance away so we headed out towards the ocean. While driving down country roads we could see what the wind had done with large limbs and trees fallen all over. As we got closer to the coast the roads were flooded. It was quite a trip and we probably should have stayed home. But we have exploring in our blood so we went on.
January 5th~~~~ Today we went into San Francisco and explored the National Monuments of the Presido and Fort Point. We got our passport book validated for both places and got to see things we normally wouldn't see. When we were in San Francisco last year we drove right by the Monuments and missed the different view of the Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge.(pictures)
January 6th~~~~San Francisco is finally settling down from the storm so we went back to San Francisco to look in some of the stores. We found a nice place to park on the street so we got to take our time looking around. We went into Macy's that has two large stores right next to each other, Men's on one side of the street and women's on the other side of the street. One floor had just makeup the second floor had shoes wall to wall. Kent ushered Sharon past the first and second floor or we would have been their until they closed. Sharon kept telling Kent that we should have taken more time on the second floor shoes.(HAHA)
January 7th~~~~ We left for Monterey over the Golden Gate Bridge(picture) towing the 5th wheel and then down 19th street in San Francisco (yes a very narrow bridge and street). As we were stopping at one of the many traffic lights Sharon asked Kent what was the smell of burning rubber. Kent informed Sharon it was all the stopping we were doing the last 3 miles on 19th street. This was the only way we could connect to highway 101 that would take us down the coast to Monterey. The views we saw going down the coast line made the trip well worth the narrow Golden Gate Bridge and streets we had been on earlier in the day.