Inspiration Point

After a delicious lunch at the restaurant in the Officer's Club, we headed back to the inn so we could freshen up and get a change of clothes.  Our luggage was waiting for us in our closets in each of our suites.  

The Presidio has hiking trails all throughout the grounds.  One trail begins right behind the inn and takes you up to Inspiration Point so that was our first sightseeing trek on The Presidio.  The hike is easy, the scenery is nice and the weather was beautiful...  especially since a few days previously, we were freezing and wet in four feet of snow in Vermont!

It is a short hike up to Inspiration Point...  the trail is wide and well-groomed...  I think it took us only 15 minutes to the view on the point...  




Inspiration Point provides views of the bay, Alcatraz (below), the Palace of Fine Arts (the dome in the foreground) and one of the hillside residential areas (the following photo)...






From Inspiration Point, we knew we wanted to head all the way down to Crissy Field on San Francisco Bay.  Will is trying to find us the best route to the other end of the grounds.  We settled on taking a shuttle bus.


The bus ride down to the opposite side of the old Army post was interesting.  We drove through narrow winding roads and break-neck speeds!  This bus ride provided stunningly beautiful views overlooking the Pacific Ocean.  Our plan was to close out the day on the beach at Crissy Field which was an airfield on the shores of the San Francisco Bay...  watching the sun set behind the Golden Gate Bridge...



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