Leaving San Francisco

Finally catching up on my picture posting. This is from this morning as the train heads out of San Francisco. I had to catch the Amtrak shuttle bus at 5:30 this morning at a bus stop on a city street. Picture downtown Denver (for those of you who know Denver) and what that is like at that time of the morning. I got up with Joan and Debbie at 3am. They wanted to be on the road by 3:30am so that they could make it home in one day. They had driven out. I got up with them so that we could all check out together. But this meant that I had nowhere to go for an hour and a half. I was told to arrive for my bus at least 20-25 minutes early, but this is no place to be hanging about if you don't have to. I waited in the lobby of our hotel. I ventured out once at about 4am to walk 2 blocks to the all-night Starbucks and quickly returned. I left my bags with the lobby security man and the
bellman, which made it easier to scoot past the sleeping street people and the police investigation.