On Friday we left LA for San Francisco. Our Greyhound bus rode the I5 which began with an hour of winding hills known as The Grapevine, then took us through the San Joaquin Valley which included five hours of the longest, straightest road we've ever been on. The entire valley is flat, arid & looks like a desert should except it is extensively farmed. We stopped for lunch at a truck-stop in the middle of nowhere & walked through sand to McDonalds.
No idea how they grow things there but there were massive plantations of citrus, fruit, vineyards all just grown from the sand & some fields spanning several kilometres. One of the strangest things was there were no houses anywhere that we could see, so while there where people picking the fruit we couldn't work out where they came from. This is a view looking east, to show how flat it was.
We arrived in San Fran 7 hours after we first left, and had a look around the city which we liked heaps. This is Union Square
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