On Sunday, we had our last half day in San Francisco. We drove to Golden Gate park, and up the cliffs by Cliff House and Seal Rock. We had breakfast on a cliff overlooking the Pacific. Down the hill by the restaurant were the remnants of an old bathhouse, and a tunnel leading to a small inlet on the other side.

On the way out of the city, we stopped at Vista Point, and saw the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge very clearly (no fog at all!). Then we took Highway 101 North to Sausalito. We had a (surprisingly) good lunch right on the water, and walked around. Sausalito is a quaint little place with lots of little independent shops.

After a few hours, we resumed our journey to Napa. On the way we stopped at a Wal-Mart to pick up some camping supplies for our future outings. We didn’t bring a cooler with us to conserve space and were thinking of getting a styrofoam one when we got to Cali. However, Wal-Mart had a cooler on sale for $13, so we bought it. It’s amazing what you can get there for so little money.

We arrived at the Napa Inn, where stayed for 3 nights. The parlor and breakfast rooms were very nicely decorated. We stayed in the Oak room, where we had a small window seat overlooking the street. We chatted up one of the owners, Jim, who told us “you gotta go to Mendo” a million times. He was talking about Mendocino, a small town on the ocean that was on our itinerary.

Our dinner that night was at La Toque, an expensive French place in Rutherford. We opted for the 5 course tasting menu with wine pairing. The service was good but the wine and food was so not worth the money. We finished dinner outside on the patio next to a cool huge stone fireplace. Overall it was disappointing because of the quality of the food, but the fireplace at least made up for it a tiny tiny bit.