Posted on Sunday, August 31st, 2003 at 10:34 am by Philip Devitt
We have managed to survive San Francisco. For those thinking of visiting the place I advise that you first goto Blackpool, find a tanning salon then get a day return from Stargate to Fleetwood. Pier 39 etc are reasonable if you like wandering around shops and have a passion for sea-food, if those things aren’t for you then I suggest staying away from the docks. The cable car ride is worth the 45 minute wait (yes forty-five minutes) and we were kept entertained by two of the locals. One of them was playing some decent’ish riffs on an old electric guitar, while another one was begging change “for a chicken sandwich”. The chicken sandwich guy was being shoo’d away by a small chinese chap who ran the security for the cable cars, eventully the chicken guy got p*ss*d off at being moved on and so started shouting obsceneties at the little chinese bloke. You could hear the chicken guy bellowing “Suck my c*ck, taste the Gook — you Gook” from a block-away… I guess San Francisco truly is the city of *brotherly* love — and we’re talking in the biblical sense.
Later on we drove across the Golden Gate bridge to find the Skywalker Ranch only to be escorted away after only taking one photo of the front gates…
Unfortunately we didn’t get a photo of the blonde cutie that pushed us away 
Here’s a couple of pictures of the cable car and one outside the gates of the infamous Skywalker Ranch.
