Feb 17 2002
Day Two
The fire engine tour was fantastic. The couple who run it called us the night before to move it up to 11 in the morning instead of 1 in the afternoon, because rain was forecast for yesterday afternoon. Fortunately for us, the rain was fashionably late and didn’t show up until the evening, when we were home for the day.
After the tour, we had lunch at Pompei’s Grotto, a charming family-run restaurant which has been around since the 1940’s, and then visited the WWII submarine Pampanito, which served in the Pacific. It’s a truly fascinating experience, and one of the few where those audio tours really work. As you visit each room of the submarine — and talk about close quarters! — the men who served on the Pampanito during WWII tell you what it was really like, from the cook to the machinist to the engineer. I still can’t believe that 73 men squeezed into that tiny place! Well worth a visit, and very inspiring.
Today’s plan is Cliff House, where we will see the remains of the Sutro Baths, seals lounging on rocks in the Pacific, and the wonderful Camera Obscura, before having lunch in the Cliff House dining room, overlooking the ocean. Later, we’re going on a sunset cruise of the Bay followed by an evening tour of Alcatraz. Stay tuned….
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