Biking in San Francisco

We got to Blazing Saddles (the bike rental we were using) at 10:30ish. It took a while to get everything sorted, getting bikes (ours were tandems), helmets and a map with routes and places to avoid marked.




Tandems on the beach

Dad was on the front seat of our tandem and Mum was on the front seat of the other tandem with Zak on the back. We have ridden tandems a couple of times before: Over the Golden Gate Bridge and at Stanley park. Mum and Dad have also ridden tandems lots of other times.

We were trying to get to the Yoda statue near Lucasfilm studios and got a bit lost. After consulting the map we figured out how to get there. Inside the reception area there were books, trophies and little models of scenes and characters. We spent about 15 minutes looking at stuff and took some photos of us with Yoda.




Yoda statue

Then we biked up a steep hill, but walked most of it, it lead us to Golden Gate park. When we were biking through Golden Gate park we saw lots of trees, some small fields and some bison. It took a long time to cycle through the park, when we came out the other side it was very sunny. We stopped for lunch by the beach which we really needed because we were starving. It felt good to take a walk because our arms and legs were sore, although we had stopped on the way a few times to take our jumpers on or off.
Me and Zak walked around in the sand for a bit and attempted making sand castles from the sand, which didn't hold shape very well.




Me jumping in sand

After that we rode back through the park, the bike path went through some of the same parts as before. Then we cycled through the the wiggle (thats how the blazing saddles assistant referred to it). Next we rode through the centre of town then to blazing saddles. By that time we had all had enough, our limbs were sore and we were exhausted.

By Emma

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