18/7: One of the most touristy things you can do in San Francisco is to ride on the cable car. They are the old, mechanical trolleys that ran up and down the hills of San Francisco back in the day – but now there are only two lines still active. And only tourists ride on them.
I felt I could live without riding on one, but mom really wanted to try (“It’s a once in a lifetime thing, Katja”). So, on the morning before going to get our rental car, we got up early and made it to the cable car stop before the line had started building up.
We went up and down, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, and really, riding in this open cable car was a nice way of getting acquainted with this part of the city.
I still think that riding a cable car in San Francisco is a touristy thing to do – but I do not think it’s a waste of time. It was pretty cool, actually.
Katja Malmborg 