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The dream is a prelude to travel ...

• Denis:

Thus we arrive at the end of our tour. Ten days is not much and it's a lot at once. Evidence, it took me a full year to feed the story of our trip! But now it's over and it makes me feel funny!

Grand Canyon AZ

• Isa:

Already more than a year since we left. Hey! Yes! But thanks to you that we relive our trip, I still feel like yesterday.

Monument Valley, AZ / UT

• Denis:

I think that to work almost daily, read and reread, review the images, we relive our memories remained intact and close to both!

• Isa:

you go back? For example, to revise or deepen some visits?

Bryce Canyon UT

• Denis:

Oh! Yes! Already I'd like to return to Grand Canyon but in a different way. Maybe a horse or donkey, or a 4x4 on a day or two camping to see more things, is so vast that I'm sure he did not see a hundredth of that beauty. We could a little more about the lives of Navajo

Bryce Canyon with special shapes so amazed me, and review colors and deep appeal to me greatly. I also think the Yosemite Park too big to do in half a day and Las Vegas we have not so light of day.

Yosemite CA

• Isa:

Yes, I regret not being able to walk in the bottom of Bryce Canyon , and I go back well into the helicopter to the Grand Canyon and fly to the Lake Powell . These flights and the views of the sky seemed to me far too short! These places are such a wealth of splendors!

• Denis:

Yes, everything is enchanted with tables so different color for each place visited, as the Valley of Fire , or that Death . By analyzing the statistics of the blog, I wonder how many people who are looking for the keyword Calico ghost town, I did not even know until you have set foot.

Las Vegas NV

• Isa:

Yes, indeed this topic I was very surprised to see such small dwellings on spaces as great! Reconstructions pioneer villages that I think pretty faithful left me puzzled. The image one is through movies and westerns distorts our vision. So while all the elements, we do not realize that in fact these villages and living spaces are so small!
And hey, just looking back, Is there a place you'd like to live in the American West?

Lake Powell AZ / UT

• Denis:

Between the three cities we visited, it is without hesitation San Francisco where I am now well pleased. It is a city that remains on a human scale and which has kept a seal so special!

• Isa:

Yes, I also see myself in San Francisco , but I hesitate to stay there too long because I risked everything to even live there. I think I am afraid of an earthquake.

Valley of Fire NV

• Denis:

Yes, but in theory, everything is planned accordingly to avoid the worst
... Come on, we still dream and there, now is the end of our adventure.

• Isa:

It's a shame you had finished, I really felt that I was traveling again! And for you? It's going to miss you! What you gonna do without your blog?

Death Valley CA

• Denis:

I still have two or three small details to work out here ...
Otherwise, yes, sure I will miss it, although I admit, it takes a long time. But it taught me a lot, too. And as you say, it seems to relive every step. Through comments, I realized that I gave the visitors wish to go. I sometimes dream of doing. And that is magic is the best rewards when you get to share something and thank you. Of course, I have not done this, but very enjoyable nonetheless.

And in doing research to try to be as close to reality and to decorate my articles, I discovered things that make you want to return. In all ways, this experience is very rewarding. And it's so much more interesting than just putting pictures online, especially since there are already thousands, and all the sites visited are often known by each of us. But it's much better to go there yourself. Remember, at each visit, no one was even more adjectives to describe these landscapes, so the surprise was the appointment: majestic, magnificent, breathtaking, sensational, huge, impressive, enormous, breathtaking, etc., etc. ...

Calico Ghost Town CA

Well, this time it's really the end. But I started to like, I do not want to stay there and I plan to create another blog.

• Isa:

To save what? You already have an idea?

• Denis:

Yes, a little idea. But it will probably be less specific, even if I want, why not, to speak there are other little escapades, perhaps less distant. And then develop other topics may be, all that is dear to my heart, actually. Come on, I say no more, yet. The only thing I can add is that I will address this new blog, here.

San Francisco CA

Beyond what we have shared together during this visit, I thank you for your help and your support for the realization of this blog. And I want to say thank you to all my readers, loyal or occasional, and those who leave me comments.

And this time, I do not tell them [to be continued ...], but soon for new adventures!

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Twin Peaks, gorgeous views of San Francisco and its bay

Thursday, May 22, 2008, noon

Hey, yes, it's a little regret that we go back on the bus. But it is time to reach the airport without further delay if we want to be on time for boarding. It is about thirty kilometers. But Herve, our guide, who definitely will surprise us again until the last moment we had reserved a final surprise in the form of a beautiful point of view it is definitely impossible to miss.

It is true that the road does not go away. So let us follow him, as usual, with confidence, experience and professionalism are always really go.

San Francisco view from Twin Peaks. In the center, we recognize the dome of City Hall and, basically, and Transamerica Pyramid, Downtown

We take again the Golden Gate Bridge to the south, this time, then after the output to Park Presidio. Originally, we find there a English fort built in 1776. Remember ... is where it all began. Then the U.S. military moved there in 1848 until 1995. Managed by the National Park Service , it is part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area , the largest urban park in the world.

Then we leading us in the Richmond District neighborhood, which was developed in the late nineteenth th century with the construction of many small Victorian houses. Appointed as New Chinatown, because of the dominance of a Sino-American community. Now take the left on Geary Boulevard. We note, just before turning to the 8th Avenue, the church Star of the Sea.

De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, Sutro Tower in the background

After a mile, we are entering the Golden Gate Park. This time, it is the municipal park in San Francisco, which is larger than Central Park in New York. The project dates back to 1860 and started on a site covered with sand, is to say the difficulties he had to conquer, not to mention the enormous cost of such implementation.

And I know you love numbers, I can not resist: it is 5 km long, 0.8 km wide and is planted with over one million trees. There is also, and in the disorder, a Conservatory of Flowers a stadium on Kezar Stadium , the Japanese Tea Garden the Botanical Garden, a museum housing paintings by American artists De Young Memorial Museum , several artificial lakes and more than ten kilometers of bicycle paths.

San Francisco view from Twin Peaks, with Market Street in the center and Bay Bridge in background, right

Leaving the park by the 9th Avenue , we see the Twin Peaks. It is as the name implies, two twin peaks of 280 meters. They are almost as high as the highest point, Mount Davidson to 282 meters. You can not missed because, not far from there, second text box Sutro Tower, which was visible already at the other end of the Golden Gate Bridge . A single road, the Twin Peaks Boulevard, leads to the top of hills, reaching Christmas Tree Point, where parking and an esplanade offering breathtaking views of the San Francisco and its bay.

We will not go without, once again, to soak up the scenery fabulous. And thus break photos rigor ...

San Francisco: left, the Golden Gate Bridge in the center, St. Mary's Medical Center. You can also see the dome of Temple Emanu-El, Byzantine style (center) and that of St. Ignatius (right). Also pictured, Golden Gate Park in the foreground, and the Presidio.

Mount Sutro, very close, rising to 277 meters. Formerly named Mount Parnassus, until he gives the name of a mayor of San Francisco, Adolph Sutro. The Sutro Tower is installed: it is a transmission tower for radio and television, which broadcasts programming from several stations throughout the San Francisco Bay. Built in 1971, it is almost 300 meters and exceeds the highest building in San Francisco's famous Transamerica Pyramid .

San Francisco - Sutro Tower on Mount eponymous

I'll leave quietly admire the panorama , you undoubtedly recognize many sites previously visited. For it is now time to catch our bus for a final trip of twenty miles to the airport ...

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The Golden Gate Bridge, one of the seven wonders of the modern world

Thursday, May 22, 2008, 11:00

Westbound via US-101, departing on Lombard Street to our next stop which is located a dozen kilometers. Some beautiful pictures are yet to be realized, although I'm sure you already know. We're fortunate today, the sun is in the game, the weather is very clear, there are no clouds. It is even very good this morning.

before yesterday, we could admire it from below . But we could not leave San Francisco without going over. I named the bridge, the famous Golden Gate Bridge, the universal symbol of the city. Similarly, one can not imagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower or New York without the Statue Freedom.

The Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco side, the universal symbol of the city

The Bridge on the Golden Gate is internationally recognized is the most photographed bridges. It is thus part of the seven wonders of the modern world, the list established by the American Society of Civil Engineers, dedicating the monuments of the twentieth th century. But as with our famous Tower or the Statue of Liberty, if it is part of the list of proposals for new wonders of the world, he was not elected among the Sept. There is certainly controversy about this, and my goal here is not to enter into this controversy. Never mind, we must recognize that this book is truly majestic and impressive.

After crossing, we stopped at Vista Point North. The view is stunning of course as the bridge over the bay of San Francisco.

The toll bridge is used by more than 40 million vehicles a year to San Francisco

We have thirty minutes ahead of us to admire the landscape extensively photographed (hint, by the way, plan for large photos) and enjoy these last moments on American soil. During this time, I'll give you some technical details on this technological marvel.

The mouth of the bay, originally named Chrysopylae (Golden Gate in Greek) by Captain John C. Fremont, in 1846, gives its name to the bridge that connects the northern tip of the peninsula from San Francisco to the city of Sausalito on the opposite shore. It is open to highway traffic, but also cyclists and pedestrians. Remember that pay for the return drive.

The city view from Golden Gate Vista Point

The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest span in the world since its completion until the Verrazano Narrows Bridge was built in New York in 1964. Today, it remains the seventh longest main span in the world.

I tell you a few figures of the Golden Gate Bridge to illustrate its size:

• Total length, including access to: 2737 meters.
• length apron Central: 1966 meters.
• Width: 27 feet, six lanes and two sidewalks.
• Clearance above water: 67 meters.
• Total weight during construction: 894 500 tons.
• Total weight today: 887 000 tons, reduced weight due to new hardware platforms.
  

Each tower exceeds 152 meters above the floor, the bridge is 67 meters of water level

• Pylons:

¤ 227 meters above the water.
¤ 152 meters above the floor. ¤
Each foot is 10 x 16 meters. Each tower weighs
¤ 44 000 tonnes.
¤ There are about 600,000 rivets in each tower. Forgive me, I have not had time to check if the account was well.

• Steel:

¤ Made in New Jersey, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and shipped through the Panama Canal. ¤
Total weight of steel: 83 000 tonnes.

On the Golden Gate Bridge is visible in the center island of Alcatraz and the Bay Bridge right, and a cables supporting the bridge, whose diameter around the meter.

• Cables:

¤ The two main cables passing over the tops of the towers and are anchored in concrete at each end. Each cable consists of 92 strands of wire strands 27 572. There are 129 000 km of wire in the two main cables, and it took more than six months to weave. This is three times around the earth!
¤ Diameter of cable (including protection): 0.92 meters (almost a meter!). ¤
each cable length: 2332 meters.

• Lighting:

¤ 128 streetlights are installed on the bridge along the road. These are high pressure sodium lamps of 250 watts installed in 1972.
¤ 24 low-pressure sodium lights of 35 watts can be found on the sidewalks around every turn.
¤ 12 400 watt lights illuminate each tower and a 750 watt light air at the top of each tower.

Detailed structure of the bridge on the access side Sausalito

• The orange vermilion paint, also called international orange was selected by architect Irving Morrow. This original painting was replaced in 1965 by a primer of inorganic zinc silicate and an acrylic emulsion. 38 painters work permanently on the bridge, and 17 ironworkers replace steel rivets corroded.

Bay Bridge, Coit Tower and Transamerica Pyramid seen from Vista Point

• And finally, a few dates:

¤ 5 January 1933: start of construction by the engineer Joseph Baermann Strauss.
¤ May 27, 1937: the bridge is open to pedestrians.
¤ May 28, 1937: Bridge opens to automobiles.
¤ February 22, 1985: The billionth car crosses the bridge.
¤ May 28, 1987: the bridge is closed to vehicles for its fiftieth anniversary. From the outset, it was only closed three times due to weather, when wind gusts over 110 km / h. He also was closed briefly during the visits of Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle.

And I could tell you again and again.
But we have a plane to catch early in the afternoon. Noon coming, and it is already time to take the bus. Time passes too quickly ...

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Finally, in addition, I suggest you refer to the selection of sites:

• the very detailed article on Wikipedia
• technical details Struturae
• official site GoldenGate . org
• the site in English gocalifornia
  

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Lombard Street, the road winding over the U.S.

Thursday, May 22, 2008, 10:30

After a short drive about 2.5 miles, we follow Columbus Avenue. It is at the crossroads with Lombard Street we deposited our driver.

Lombard Street, a street quite ordinary a priori, except that it climbs. And it makes you quickly realize, when you are on foot, believe me! Go, hop, courage, follow me!

San Francisco - Lombard Street

We are here in the Russian Hill neighborhood, one of the forty hills of San Francisco. After 350 meters, we find "the crookedest street," the most crooked street in the United States. In fact this road is 4.5 km long, but it is known for a very small part, on one block only. Famous and very photogenic, especially when the number of clumps that adorn the years since 1920 are in bloom.

Satellite View (Enlarge the map and go down the street here)

between Leavenworth Street and Hyde Street, there are no fewer than eight hairpin turns on this slope of 27 °. With this artifice, we significantly reduced the slope of almost half in the life of local residents. Only in the movies we will see car chases. And it is undoubtedly because it is also known to be very windy that the nickname "Windy Windy Windy Windy Street" in a video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas .

From the green up there in the middle of the street?

On the right side is a stairway for pedestrians. This also admire quietly, and at their own pace, houses with flowers, but also the view that, as often happens here is breathtaking, from the moment it takes a little height.

By car, and only down, but some are several times around ...

When you arrive at the top of the hill, we crossed Hyde Street, where the line passes Powell / Hyde Cable Car, with a direct descent on Fisherman's Wharf and opposite the island of ' Alcatraz.

Here, even the houses are blooming ...

Behind us, on the east, one sees Coit Tower, Bay Bridge, the Island of Yerba Buena and the Transamerica Pyramid. Looking good, you can even see construction of the new bridge. Feel free to watch the slideshow to watch the pictures that I could not include in this article, lack of space.

Beware, it turns!

front of us, west, Lombard Street, much larger, will be lost in Park Presidio. And, on that side, we see that it goes down! Russian Hill, I told you ... a roller coaster, with their attractions size!

foot, you can see the Bay Bridge and Transamerica Pyramid

This street party is one way, one can only go down by car eastward. Well i guess ill do the same bus! And speaking of buses, it is already waiting for us, two blocks lower on Polk Street.

Coit Tower and Bay Bridge, seen from Lombard Street

I can assure you, once again, we do not regret this (small) effort, especially as this portion of the street does is ultimately no more than 130 meters ... or 200 meters by taking the red tiles of the floor. Yes, well, I know, it climbs, but nothing in the world, do miss it.

note, brace yourself, it's going down!

Know that there is another way to go, it seems. A legend indeed promises happiness to those who fall together. It's true, we have not had not warned before.

Lombard Street, west side, is immersed in the Presidio, at the bottom

And there it is, some (s) are ready (e) s to go back! Yes, yes, I have names, you want them?

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Before boarding an airplane ...


Hot Topic in more ways than one, especially when going on holiday, I chose today to share with you the address of a site that will give you practical information to know before boarding an airplane: airlines permitted or prohibited, tips to prepare your trip, safety measures, air passenger rights .. .

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA ) proposes to find online all that air passengers should know before boarding.

DGCA this list and the French air carrier authorized to conduct air transport public but also the list of carriers air of the European Economic Area and outside the European Economic Area can serve France. The DGAC also returns the list of airlines banned within the EU.

In addition, the DGAC reports on various subjects: country information, paperwork, travels toward the United States, health (including diabetes), customs, baggage, boarding or traveling with a pet (dog, cat).

Finally, the DGAC back on the restrictive measures applied to liquids in hand luggage and items prohibited in cabin and cargo while insisting also on the rights of passengers (delay, denied boarding, cancellation, loss or damage of baggage claims, disabled access and disabled, legal framework).

DGCA guarantees the safety and security of air traffic. Service airlines, it manages air traffic, develops and enforces regulations for airports and French companies. It enforces the right of passengers.

Article Source: Service- public.fr > Air - 01/07/2009

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few examples, and many others to discover the site:

• Practical information to know before boarding an airplane
• Security
• environment
• About DGAC