GOING GOING BACK BACK TO CALI CALI.

Stop 1- San Francisco

San fran interestingly has the highest capital of alcohol consumed in relation to its size in america, along with some seriously impressive architecture, street art, ghetto crackys, cool trendy bars, and a serious problem with homeless people. My trip here started off in quite an intense manner, being offered crack by a heavy human within an hour of being in the city. The funniest thing about this place is the stereotypes of america are 100% legit. My first impressions of this place were exemplified 10 times what i expected. Beggers on the streets with individualistic traits, ghetto guys in clothes that could only be described as XXXXXXXL, crack heads talking to themselves and screaming down the streets, contrasted to 60$ million mega mansions, thousands of range rovers and the thriving financial sector. The streets are packed with newly released SF flat brim caps and constant rap music being blasted from shops, even in a city like San fran that is considered the gay capital of the world.

As much as the contrast of a place like this is, san fran is a truly unique and amazing city. it is well designed, easy to navigate, cheap, trendy, vibrant and cultured. You can be slamming down alltime italian cuisine in north beach ( known as little italy), walk a block south and be consumed with disgustingly overpriced designer fashion, too a public housing district less then 500metres from the iconic Union Square were on saturday night a gang member was shot 16 times by a rival gang in drug related tension. ONLY IN AMERICA.

below are an array of photos from across the city. Polk street, the mission, union square, golden gate bridge, red wood forests, ocean beach, china town, Haight and Ashbury, Alcatraz the infamous penitentiary, pier 39 and the people i have been experiencing these things with. A group of swiss travellers, a couplaaaa canadians and a fellow Aussie ledge. NEXT STOP CANADAAAAA. xox