Atherton, CA is located outside of San Francisco and in order to travel to San Fran, the Caltrain will take you there. The Caltrain system is seperated into 6 zones. The more zones you travel to, the longer your ride and the cost. For example, I was traveling from Zone 3 from the Menlo Park Station to Zone 1, San Francisco. The one way fare was $7.25. That is expensive and this is only one way. There were other options such as the day pass, monthly pass, and so on. I can only imagine if there are people who make this commute everyday to go to work, On the train itself, it took approximately 50 minutes to get from Menlo Park to San Francisco. And from the San Francisco station, we walked about 2 miles to Chinatown. It was very windy, but nice weather. On our way, we stopped by H&M to buy sweaters because we knew it would get cold later on.
Chinatown in SF is beautiful. Tons of shops and places to eat. We noticed two women hustling on the streets trying to drag people into their shops. I read about this in China and is done often to especially foreigners. We went into one restaurant and was not satisfied of the people inside nor we smelled nothing so we left. The lady was very upset. We headed to another Chinese restaurant and I had this spicy chicken with rice. It was good. I wish it wasn't so dry (in terms of having additional sauce around it) and had some vegetables on the side. Otherwise it was not bad at all. From there, we walked a ton more to the Zig Zag street AKA Lombard Street. People drive down this narrow street. It is filled with a ton of flowers on the sides and to get to this particular street, you have to walk up these steep streets of SF. Not sure how people bike on the streets or if people are able to bike on them. There were a decent amount of people there taking pictures. The walking did not bother me too much, but the other people I was with were struggling.
Our last stop was the Golden Gate Bridge, which did not turn out too well. We had to take an Uber there because of time and by the time we got there, it was dark and way too windy. People were complaining of how cold it was (I can't blame them) and wanted to go as soon as we got there. After a 30 minute wait or so, we caught an UBER back to the Caltrain station where we had to wait an HOUR before the last train of the night arrived. What a pain. The big difference with the trains in DC vs SF is that these trains in SF are MUCH more expensive (just to go one way) and move a lot slower. But what I really like about SF is how biker friendly it is. There are a ton more people on bikes than in DC in my opinion. I can see myself living here.
Chinatown in SF is beautiful. Tons of shops and places to eat. We noticed two women hustling on the streets trying to drag people into their shops. I read about this in China and is done often to especially foreigners. We went into one restaurant and was not satisfied of the people inside nor we smelled nothing so we left. The lady was very upset. We headed to another Chinese restaurant and I had this spicy chicken with rice. It was good. I wish it wasn't so dry (in terms of having additional sauce around it) and had some vegetables on the side. Otherwise it was not bad at all. From there, we walked a ton more to the Zig Zag street AKA Lombard Street. People drive down this narrow street. It is filled with a ton of flowers on the sides and to get to this particular street, you have to walk up these steep streets of SF. Not sure how people bike on the streets or if people are able to bike on them. There were a decent amount of people there taking pictures. The walking did not bother me too much, but the other people I was with were struggling.Our last stop was the Golden Gate Bridge, which did not turn out too well. We had to take an Uber there because of time and by the time we got there, it was dark and way too windy. People were complaining of how cold it was (I can't blame them) and wanted to go as soon as we got there. After a 30 minute wait or so, we caught an UBER back to the Caltrain station where we had to wait an HOUR before the last train of the night arrived. What a pain. The big difference with the trains in DC vs SF is that these trains in SF are MUCH more expensive (just to go one way) and move a lot slower. But what I really like about SF is how biker friendly it is. There are a ton more people on bikes than in DC in my opinion. I can see myself living here.
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