Morning Walk

One of the advantages of coming west is that you get up early in the morning. San Francisco is 2 hours behind Houston, so getting up at 6 am was easy! I had a short meeting late morning, so before that I wanted to do a bit of a walk up the Telegraph Hill to Coit Tower. Telegraph Hill is my absolute favorite neighborhood in San Francisco. Since I am staying at Montgomery St. in the Financial district, it is a straight northbound walk to Coit Tower.

Here I am looking south down the Montgomery St. from Transamerica View Point.

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This is one of my favorite view of the city. It is much less popular that several others but I like it. This morning the classic San Francisco fog made it especially mystical as city was yet to wake up to a Saturday morning.

These are the Montgomery Street Steps. I took them slow. There wasn’t a single soul this early in the morning.

Few more steps above you take a left and look up and it is the Filbert Steps leading up to the Coit Tower. If there is anywhere in the world that I want to live, if money and taxes are not an option, that would be here!

That house on the right with pink Bougainvillea, sign me up please! :)

Next bit is through nicely paved path through dense vegetation that is almost always wet due to the constant moisture from the pacific.

Then finally you arrive at the Coit Tower after quite a bit of huffing and puffing! Just take it slow and you will be alright. It was quite cold and windy there. Mark Twain rightly said:

”The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco,"

It was 57F this AM. Can you believe that?! I can’t!

This is the north side. It has a mid sized parking lot and a small coffee shop, which was closed this early. I don’t know when it opens.

On clear days the views are stunning into the San Francisco Bay, but I didn’t mind the clouds at all. I have seen it clear more often, this mist was incredible!

Then I headed west as I took a different road down the Greenwich St.

The neighborhood is stunningly pretty here!

You can see Coit Tower peaking behind the homes. Who wouldn’t want to live here?

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