Roadtrip Across the USA: Day 5

21 hours of driving through mountains, then valleys, then canyons, then mountains again, then flat lands, then deserts, then mountains, then into San Francisco. It was a beautiful drive but a difficult one for all of us. A majority of the drive was through the night which made it worse. Jake and I did the night shifts. He went first than I. I got on the wheel at 3:30am somewhere in the middle of Nevada and drove till 12pm when we arrived here in San Fran.

But as some of you many know, this is where I left part of my heart and soul 2 years ago when I first visited this place. I saw our hotel from 2 years ago, ate at Cafe Mason like we did 2 years ago and saw alot of the same places and things that we did 2 years ago. And it felt like I never left the city. It felt like it was yesterday two years ago.

I navigated myself and the rest of us around the city no problem. We searched for a hotel with decent rates and found one about a mile from the other hotel I stayed at 2 years ago, even on the same street. Walked around Union Square and Chinatown and also ran from camera shop to camera shop (literally, I ran) to find a new or used Nikon D-SLR at a decent price. I found one and plan on selling it as soon as the trip is over and get mine fixed but everybody knows that my pictures from this trip mean more to me than anything. Photography and traveling are my passion and for my camera to break on the biggest travel of my life so far...yeah...it was heartbreaking. So I forked over the money I did not want to spend to be able to continue on with my passions.

God, I love you San Francisco.