Just a little 6 hour ride around San Francisco on Mountain bikes

On Sunday, after we found out that the waves were JUNK, we decided to borrow Rick and Helga's mountain bikes and drive back to San Francisco so that we could ride across the Golden Gate Bridge. As stated in the post before, the fog had finally rolled in so unfortunately, it was probably going to be a foggy ride across the bridge but oh well... 

When we were in San Francisco on Friday, Nate kept mentioning that he wanted to see what Haight and Ashbury was all about. So, first stop on the bike adventure was to find Haight and Ashbury. We rode through the streets of western San Fracisco until we finally found the panhandle of Golden Gate park. Then we found Ashbury street so we took that and then we found Haight and then we rode up and down the street looking at all the shops. What I didn't expect was a Ben and Jerry's ON the corner of Haight and Ashbury... but it was 10am on Sunday so there was no Ben and Jerry's for me!! :(

 We then rode through Golden Gate park and worked our way to the Golden Gate Bridge.

We climbed some crazy hills and Nate took his shirt off.... 

Then we looked over some crazy cliffs.. 

And we kept riding until we got to the bridge... And it was AWESOME!!!! 

After we rode across the bridge, we rode up another killer hill and got to see the bridge from a different angle. Also very cool... 

Then we rode down the hill and went off on a pier and got to see the bridge from yet another angle. 

After the bridge, we decided to have lunch in Sausalito. We found bike locks when we were leaving the house, but we didn't know the combination so we decided we would stay with the bikes and eat outside. It was a really yummy cute restaurant so it worked perfectly. 

After lunch, we decided to head back towards the city as we needed to get back to San Jose to pick up Dessa. Here is the bridge on the way back into San Francisco. 

Nater Potater in an awesome cheese pose off the bridge!!! 

The bridge from the last and final angle as we rode away... 

With only knowing where we parked the car and not knowing anything about the elevation. Nate decided that we would ride Fillmore street back to the car. We pedaled up to it and I looked up and said, "Oh no"... 

Nate is the yellow shirt with the orange back riding up the hill above the silver car... notice the steps on the side of the road. 

This is me as I'm pushing my bike up the hill... I didn't ride much at all and I am ok with it! 

The last of the trip to the city included an unexpected stop at Stanford University. We messed up Helga's GPS system in the car and it was giving us directions back to San Jose via the shortest distance, not necessarily the shortest route. So we got off on some exit and then started driving down some road. I looked at the phone and was like, 'ooh, Stanford is just down the road. Can we see it?'. So, we did... 

The brand new track with the tower in the back ground. 

Nate skating through campus... 

The pool... must be rough... 

I did take a picture of the football team during practice and I did get yelled at and because I'm a rule follower, I won't post it on the blog.