Good Experience - Blog 2

Best Vacation Ever

Last December my friends and I decided to travel to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. It was the first vacation in another country and also the first vacation that I was able to spend a good quantity of money. The first thinking it was expend 30 days traveling around this cities trying to go in every place and do everything to enjoy every single second of the trip. Just the thought of taken a vacation was already amazing and the chance to visit and do tours in these cities was even more exiting. The adventures and surprises that we were waiting for regard this travel experience was inexplicable and the feeling was of the best.

One week before we left New Orleans we all decided and bought big backpacks. My backpack was the biggest and for consequence the heavier. The flight to San Francisco had two stops, Houston, Austin and then San Francisco. All the flights occurred better than I expected because the flight from Houston to Austin I did not choose to sit in one place. When I arrived in the plane’s door the company told me that they was run out of places in the economic class, and then they put me in the first class. It was the best flight ever.

One thing that I forgot to say is that I was alone in the first flight, so I arrived in San Francisco airport alone, but it was nothing to worry about. Until that moment nothing was too unusual, it was a big airport, had planes, many people too, so I just found my friends and we took the metro to downtown. We arrived at the station walked a little bit and climbed the stairs. This moment, this was the exact moment I knew that I was in the US. That part of the city is just wonderful, exactly the same in the movies. I do not know if it was the architecture stile or the feeling of being in San Francisco that made me excited.

We stayed at San Francisco International Hostel, simple place but very good. It was four people to a room, laundry, free coffee and pancakes in the breakfast and the best thing, free beer down stairs. They had every night free beer for the guests in the basement, and even better a space to dance, a private room with a table, another space to play poker and a professional and wonderful table for beer pong. We had really good moments there and I met people from all the world, France, Spain, England, Japan, Germany, Mexico, etc. It was excellent exercise to improve my English, and to share a secret, my English is almost perfect when I am drunk.

  I did not spend my whole time in San Francisco in the hostel. The first place that we went was the Golden Gate Bridge, it was no easy to get there. I rented bikes and we rode to the bridge. We passed by some famous architecture houses and through a big park. It was almost a perfect ride but my friend’s bike broke and we stayed waiting for the replace of the bike for two hours. In this waiting time the weather changed, it became cold and if one is riding a bike when the weather is cold the felling becomes colder. Despite this fact, the ride was wonderful and to ride a bike on the bridge is an inexplicable felling. Everything was worth this ride, even the cold weather. In the other days we visited the Pier 39, National Park Muir woods, and the night life in San Francisco.

The grade for San Francisco is A plus. Everyone in the world needs to visit this city, there I felt a great pleasure to walk and talk with everybody. Beautiful city, wonderful places, and free beer down stairs. Now the other part of the trip, well I think I will keep it for the next blog.