Park day, travel night, arrive in Lima

I don't know how I figured we could do all this stuff, and have time or energy left over to blog it.

Oh well, here's our Thu/Fri in a nutshell:

We decided to focus on San Francisco parks on Thursday, so we packed up, checked out of the hotel (leaving our big bags), and headed to Golden Gate Park via bus.

We were happy just to stroll through the park, so when we saw the $7pp option to see the Botanical Garden, we walked on past. We encountered a park worker who offered us some information, and then let us in an access gate for the Botanical Garden (saving us $14!). She said "oh well, it USED to be free".

From there, we wandered down to Park Presidio Boulevard. We caught a bus that took us up that street, right to the near end of the Golden Gate Bridge. We caught a glimpse of the whole bridge before the fog rolled in and hid it for the rest of the day. From there, we (energetically) decided to walk to Fisherman's Wharf: 4 mi or 6 km along the waterfront. This took us through part of the Presidio, to a park cafe called "The Beach Hut" next to the St. Francis Yacht Club where we had lunch. From there, we wandered to and through and Fort Mason, right to where we could take the "F" cablecar to Pier 39. From there, we walked another  1.5 mi or 2.6 km to Pier 1, the Ferry Building.

We grabbed another cablecar from there to Montgomery (near our hotel) and paused there long enough to give our passes away (1+ days left on our 3-day pass), then went to the hotel and grabbed our backpacks. We got back on BART in the direction of SFO, but unfortunately, not on a car that actually went there. Kate realized this before it was too late, so we hopped off and on the next cart that did get us there ... still in plenty of time for being 2 hours early for our 7:50PM flight.

We flew to LAX, where we found we had to transfer to Terminal 6. This took some time, but again, we had plenty of time to get our 11:30PM flight to Panama City. A brief stop for a late dinner (and a long walk to the furthest gate) and we boarded the plane. This leg was 6.5 hours plus a 2 hour time change.

Another brief stop and another long walk to the furthest gate (and a US$3.25 bottle of water) got us on our flight to Lima.

Once in Lima, we grabbed a "Taxi Green" who said he could take is to our hotel for 70 Soles. He was good ... he deeked around a traffic jam, drove us along the oceanfront, and right to our hotel. Kate and I cleaned up and went for a hot tub and dip in the pool. After that, we walked a block or two to a restaurant called "Tanta". We had a great 3 course meal, bought a bottle of water for the night, and retired back at our hotel.

Tomorrow is another travel day: taxi to the airport, fly Lima to Cusco, then check into our Cusco hotel.

Hopefully I'll have energy to blog and post pictures/tracks tomorrow.