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Next up, mom wanted to see Lombard Street, which she calls the crooked street.  We took the Powell-Hyde cable car up, got off at Lombard, and joined a lot of other tourists looking to do the same.  I did learn that Lombard is not actually crooked.  Rather, there is a one-block section off of Hyde Street which has eight sharp turns, like a zig zag.

The weather was clear and beautiful.

It provides for some fantastic views.

Mom and Mike are trudging up the street.  However, they both only went a couple blocks down.  Some years back, Derry and I walked to Coit Tower, up the Tower, back down, and then all of the way up Lombard to Hyde.  As we walked up Lombard, there were times I thought I was going to drop dead of exhaustion.  There were a couple times I nearly started to cry because it was my dumb idea to walk it.  We did make it to Hyde and took the cable car down to the Wharf so I could pig out at In N Out Burger.  Following years we walked up from different areas, but never from all the way on the bottom.  Lesson learned.

I’m happy.  I didn’t walk that far down. Did I mention I learned my lesson?

Everyone passes cameras around.  I took a lot of photos of a couple girls in their late teens or early 20s.  They were having a blast striking all types of poses.  I used their camera, and from what I could see, they should be very happy with the pixs.   I should have also taken a couple with my camera.  Ahh youth!

More great views – looking towards Alcatraz Island.

I tend to go to San Francisco in January, so this is the first time I got to see the flowers in bloom.

I had a long day planned for us, so it was time to get back on the cable car and head all the way down Powell.

We made it to the bottom!

Next up, we walked to Market Street to pick up a bus to Haight Ashbury.

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