Somehow Kevin woke up me and Sean up earlier today, and we were showered and headed toward the neighboring Hostel in downtown San Fran by about 9. We ventured over there for the $1 all you can eat pancake feast - which they host daily - and we were of course stuffed by the time we left!

Kevin convinced us that we needed to return to Lombard street to actually DRIVE down the most crooked street in the US. We took the road nice and slow, taking video and photos all the way down.

Next stop was inspired by Sean's girlfriend Kristin and was located back at Ghiradelli Square. First we revisited the chocolate-sample lady who we got the same exact speel from yesterday, then we proceeded to a small tea shop called “The Crown & Crumpet.” Kristin's one request of Sean from this trip was to get a picture of him in this tea shop. Peering into this Barbie-pink shop we immediately received a smile from a 25-year old true Italian dude... wearing a polka-dot apron, each dot a different color of the rainbow. If he were wearing a little pink tu-tu, it would not have changed my impression. So, unfortunately we had to refuse the $63 “Tea for Three” on the menu, and just snapped a few photos of Sean standing on the pink checker-board floor in princessland. We immediately evacuated the area while talking about very masculine things like the outdoors, hiking and spitting.

It was very wise to save our money at the tea shop because we NEEDED IT for the SIX-DOLLAR TOLL to cross the Golden Gate Bridge! It was worth it, though. On the other side of the bridge we clumsily navigated our way into the Golden Gate Recreation area for some outdoor fun. We hiked past the “Rodeo Lagoon” and “Rodeo Beach”, followed by a hike up to the aptly named “Hawk Hill.” There, we got a 360-degree panoramic view of the San Francisco bay, Golden Gate Bridge, half of San Fran, Alcatraz, the Pacific Ocean, Golden Gate Rec Area, and more. It was an incredible view.

It was 1:40 PM and we had to make our way across the city, find parking, and get to our 3 o'clock interview with Joe Brown, the Associate Editor at Wired Magazine. Enter elevator, hit button 3, doors close, then open to walls lined with Super-Sized posters of all the previous Wired Magazine covers EVER MADE. With minutes left until the interview, we made our way into the office and met Joe. He gave us a quick tour of the workspace (consisting of the entire 3rd floor), then we set up in the conference room for the actual interview. This being our first real interview, it started out a little rocky, but got more comfortable as we continued. Joe grew up in Brooklyn, New York and ended up in his awesome job by a combination of luck and putting his “nose to the grindstone”. He also had some very enlightening opinions about big city life, and the contrast between New York and San Fran. Watch the interview for more on that. He had a good deal of advice for us, but it can all be summed up to his catch-phrase, “ f*** 'em”. We concluded by getting his signature on the most recent issue of Wired, along with some other swag.

Sean and I loved Chinatown so much the first time, that we just HAD to go back! Kevin put up with us. We were approached for a second time by some older Chinese women on the street that we needed to go to their restaurant for free potstickers and green-tea ice-cream with our entree. The food was good, reasonably priced, and Kevin said they served the best sweet-n-sour sauce he had ever tasted. The next 3 hours were spent in various China Discount Flea Markets, looking for cheap crap. We found plenty! Postcards were 8 for a dollar!!! How can you go wrong there? T-shirts were $1.88 each!!! And people were paying $1.99 down the street for the same glorious crap. What fools!!!