A special birthday, a diamond anniversary and a west coast adventure TRIP REPORT COMPLETED IN THIS FORUM - Page 26 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
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That was quite a nice light dinner on your first night in San Fran! Loved the photos of the sunrise, which was amazingly colorful against the clouds! You are having quite a morning in the city and are seeing so much! That was quite a nice drive down Lombard as I remember it well! Glad you were the only car going down it at the time. Great photos of the Golden Gate Bridge and various of the city skyline!
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Oh thank goodness you found your money! But how odd about the car.
It was the freakiest thing...
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Great photos so far! Isn't that cemetery amazing? I took some time to actually walk through it when I was there and it's just so peaceful and beautiful. You forget that you're in a big city.
Oh wow, I bet that was an amazing experience.
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And I'm curious why we're remembering where the museum is. I hope you don't get lost later.....
Did you by any chance leave a key fob in the car? My car will not lock if it senses that the key fob is still in the car. Your pictures are wonderful. I really want to take a trip to San Francisco.
It was something similar. It reacted to the key being nearby, and apparently locked once you got further away.
That is really weird. My car will unlock if something hits the key fob in my purse. San Francisco is so hilly and pretty. I live in a very flat area and those hills look amazing.
I'm totally loving your pictures of San Francisco. We walked up Lombard Street with the kids when we were there.
We did Lombard Street on our last visit, although I read in a guidebook to walk down it, then you're not so exhausted as you do it - you've done the hard work walking up to the top end already.
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There is a Thomas Kincade of Lombard Street that I'm after for my Christmas.
Oh that sounds wonderful.
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We also loved Ghirardelli square in fact I'm sitting here thinking we have to go back to San Francisco, maybe for my 50th.
I am playing catch up again. I too love to see mountains as I fly as it's not on this side of the country so much either. It's amazing how different parts of the US are so different.
I would love to have a little bed while flying too. I can never sleep as my head flops all over and I drool.
Sunday 30 August – part five: crossing the Golden Gate Bridge
Once we were done with photos, we drove over to the bridge. It was a bit painful with traffic at first, and we thought there’d been an accident involving a cyclist, but we think that they’d stopped a cyclist who was on the wrong side of the bridge, as apparently pedestrians go on one side, and cyclists on the other. At least it wasn’t anything more serious.
I have to say it was very cool to drive over the bridge, although I was not impressed to discover that my memory stick ran out of space halfway across. I grabbed another, as I knew I’d already deleted the other three I carry with me, but apparently I didn’t do that at all, as they were all full. Not what I needed. I did the best I could…
We then pulled off at the viewing area just across the bay, so I could sort my memory sticks out and we could get some more photos…
Then we made our way back over the bridge, and already the cloud had descended quite a lot more just in those few minutes…
We started to make our way over to the Walt Disney Family Museum. Now remember we’d already passed it once today? Well, let’s just say our GPS seemed to think it had moved somewhere else, as it was taking us a totally different route. In the end, armed with the map in the car in the in-car GPS and the map I’d picked up from the hotel this morning, we found our way back to the route we’d taken this morning, and did the whole thing from memory. On the way, we found the Palace of the Fine Arts – what a beautiful place!
Finally, we made it – no thanks to our GPS.
Outside, on what I’d call the green, was this – remember this for later…
I would have been in frenzy if my memory cards were full. Glad you were able to sort it out as you got some excellent shots of the trip over and back on the bridge. Sounds like your GPS tried to send you all off on a wild goose chase. Thank goodness you were able to retrace your route!
Oh my - thank goodness you had more memory sticks and could straighten that out. Or you'd be finding the closest Walgreen's!! The bridge photos are so cool - sunshine and fog at the same time. Classic!
Hmmm, you did end up getting lost on the way back! Technology.
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Between the key fob, the memory stick, and the GPS, you're having quite a go with the 21st century technology this morning, arent you? Hoping that the 3rd item of bad luck is the last and that you can get on with it!
Seeing all those tents makes me think some kind of festival is going to be happening?
I really loved the movie Tomorrowland too and I can't wait for it to come out on DVD.
The bridge looks so beautiful. How fun to be able to drive across and take pictures too. It always seems those dang memory cards run out at the worst times. I have had that issue many times and then come across the next card you thought you deleted prior to the trip...such a pain.
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Loved the photos of the sunrise, which was amazingly colorful against the clouds! 
You are having quite a morning in the city and are seeing so much! 
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we think that they’d stopped a cyclist who was on the wrong side of the bridge, as apparently pedestrians go on one side, and cyclists on the other. At least it wasn’t anything more serious. 
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