[USA Travel] San Francisco - Castro District + Fisherman's Wharf + shopping
After a tiring non-stop drive of 5.5 to 6 hours from SLO, we finally reached San Francisco (SF) at around 6pm in the evening. Our stay was at a place called ' Beck's Motor Lodge', and we had arranged to stay for 2 nights. We chose this place because it is one of the few accommodations that had free parking. Apparently in San Francisco, parking is rather limited! To our surprise, the room was rather spacious, clean, and had assorted amenities/ toiletries for us to use. Our stay was located at the Castro District , and we had a bit of a surprise here. Castro District is also known as the first gay neighbourhood in the United States, and is considered the gay capital in the world. Rainbow flags were everywhere, and this was testament to San Francisco's liberal mind-set and acceptance for all Lesbian Gay Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) activism in the world. After ...