Today we visited Alcatraz in San Francisco. Unfortunately for us, all the online and phone tickets had sold out until next week, which meant we had to be down to the ticket booth by 6am to queue and wait for that days released tickets.

Despite arising at the ugly time of 5.15am, we manged to get tickets and were some of the first people on the island. They have a fantastic audio tour that really sets the mood of the place and features some of the original prison guards and inmates.

We’re both liking San Francisco so far. We weren’t so sure about Seattle. It seemed a rather dull place and there wasn’t a great deal to do apart from go up the space needle. The space needle was surrounded by tacky fairground attractions and far too many beggars.

Los Angeles and Las Vegas are our next two destinations, where we finish up our traveling. Should be a good couple of weeks left and I’m sure I’ll post again soon.