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After an exhausting bike ride the previous day, today was spent doing a few more casual and laid back things, starting with a simple breakfast of crepes what we usually refer to as pancakes.

Catching a number 47 bus from just up the street from the hotel with in no time at all we were at city hall, a large domed building at the centre of lots other buildings with those large pillar entrances. Travelling on the bus can be an experience in its own right if a disabled person has to get on the bus. The bus driver lowers the bus so the wheel chair can move to the mini lift at the entrance to the bus. Then the bus driver shouts move back, wheel chair coming through and then lifts up one row of seats to make way for the wheelchair.

Proceeding on we took a lengthy ride on the number 5 bus to sort of the centre of the golden gate park, basically where the de young museum is. The museum itself was fairly interesting housing lots of modern art pieces. Of note a cathedral model made entirely out of bullets or parts of guns. The museum also housed a large portion of New Guinea pieces from various tribes that live or have lived on the island.

Being born in Papa New Guinea and my mother living there for a while we had a unique interesting in finding any thing that she may recognise. The only piece we found that was from the exact area that was born, Mount Hagen was a large red and white wooden shield.

The museum also had a lookout tower where you could get views of the rest of the park. Funnily enough the rest of the park is huge stretching for almost half the city across. Taking a few photos from the tower we finished up at the museum and headed back on the bus.

Leaving San Francisco the next day, I must admit I enjoyed my stay in the city by the bay, a strange and enlightening experience of which I hope to go back some time in the future to experience more of.