Los Angeles to San Francisco :
I started my road trip in the United States making the trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco, well worth a visit. More importantly, if you do so, ensure that you take Highway 1 along the coast, it is the slower but by far the most beautiful.
It runs along a beautiful coastline dotted with secluded beaches, with a hilly landscape that gradually changes into mountainous landscape.
And the last third of the route, the scenery becomes absolutely sublime. The road is wedged between the sea and the mountains and the mist and the sun play create absolutely stunning light effects that give the impression of living poetry of the road, a moment of grace and a bit surreal that seems fleeting can vanish at any moment and to be enjoyed before it flies away forever
In short, from Los Angeles, the tour is a spectacle in itself, even before going there!
climate :
The first thing that strikes in San Franscisco, besides its distinctive architecture (I speak just after), it's climate, very different from Los Angeles. We are about 500 miles to the north, and even if it corresponds to the latitude of Algiers, the temperature is lower, and above the fog is everywhere, while the sun shines almost all the time in Los Angeles (that is also why Hollywood was born, it's easier to shoot movies).
An overview of the yoke of mist that threatens the city almost all the time, and often completely covers the morning.
Architecture:
The second thing that strikes in San Francisco, it is obviously architecture, very different from Los Angeles and other American cities I've seen. It is very famous and it is likely that you have already seen on TV, but it's still something to see in person. It consists mainly of typical colored houses, often with a fire escape very visible front (especially near the center), which are very similar to each other.
Obviously, the Down-Town is dotted with skyscrapers, and the usual American communities are found in San Francisco, often giving an architectural touches directly related to their culture in the neighborhoods where they live, but these houses is however widespread and has an undeniable charm that gives a distinctive look to the city.
Culture :
Beyond communities created around a national, there in San Francisco community culture, which have also their favorite neighborhood. The most famous is the gay community, which includes the Castro district, and has a very strong culture, marked by its history of first gay community in the United States, which led him to have his martyrdom, the counselor municipal Harvey Milk, who was assassinated along with the mayor in 1978 by another homophobic alderman.
Similarly, the "hippie" community has a historic district, Haight Ashbury, shops and bars and colorful where bands like to play spontaneously in the streets. In this area it seems that there is a feast of music all the time! ,) (This is also the case for the city center). It's very nice to walk around and enjoy the atmosphere, even if it is sometimes marred by hippies who have a little abused legal and less legal substances and "go crazy" in the street .
Here is one of the icons of Haight-Ashbury, the famous pair of legs sticking out of the window
Charm:
As in my wanderings through the streets, meetings with objects, atmospheres, impromptu people, I had to face the facts: San Francisco has a lot of charm. Between singular and colorful architecture, the inimitable atmosphere of the various districts, the atmosphere excited and exciting bars, which skirts the outdated modern and the cable cars that still ply the streets and a few old trams 50s line F, the beauty of the bay, the impressive finesse the Golden Gate Bridge, the magnificence of its parks, the serenity of Japanese Zen garden, the beauty of forests, islands and mountains that surround the dilapidated mystery of Alcatraz a short distance, the sea lions at Pier 39, the water village of Sausalito, and so on and best, I no longer know where to turn because there was so many beautiful things to see and enjoy.
It's a feeling that earns us slowly, as we wandered the streets and the various environments are revealed one by one. This is something I have not felt in Los Angeles - while I loved this city - and I really enjoyed in San Francisco. It smells a scent of freedom, nonconformity and celebration that gives pleasure, and beauty that can surprise us at every street corner and I do not have either met in Los Angels
Alcatraz, in the middle of the bay
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