Today we head back to San Francisco for the last few days of our trip. We planned a fairly direct route but due to SF but by a series of mishaps and poor directions we managed to take the more scenic route along the coast. It was the first time our implausibly large and yet detail light map of California actually came in handy in plotting a route across to the airport. This thing is roughly a3 size about a centimetre thick and covers the whole of California just not in very useful detail. This time since we only needed major roads it was able to point us in the right direction, in the past it's been too low resolution to be any good.

We got to the airport more or less on time had a little trouble finding a petrol station to fill the thing up having to double back before we could find anywhere. Byrnie was getting a little annoyed with the whole setup by this point. I've discovered that nothing seems to annoy him more than driving in the US, and if he's doing so with no breakfast his already short fuse is practically non existent.

We dropped the car and then took a taxi back into the city. This time we were staying at the Sheraton which was pretty close to the previous hotel just a few blocks over which we must have walked past many times but for some reason never spotted, this might be because it looks like an apartment building from the outside.

The room was a pretty good the air-con was a bit weak and the room was quite hot but we had a veranda with two comfy chairs overlooking the pool which compensated a little.

We bought some drinks then retired to the hotel room for a rest watching NCIS on the tv which for some reason always has bright red skin tones making all the cast look like tomatoes. This must be deliberate because no other program on the same channels on the same tv has the same problems.

We hadn't have time for breakfast or lunch so we were feeling a bit hungry we decided a good steak was the order of the day so we headed out to Houston's a place we had been to last time. I had a Caesar salad to start then the special Rib Eye rounding the meal off with a slice of key lime pie. The food was excellent we washed it down with a few Martinis.

We wandered back feeling pretty full and tired.