Tuesday 4th February

Woke to a gloomy day, sea steel grey heavy clouds, temperature 13°C, still tracking up the West Coast parallel to Phoenix Arizona (Hi Ron, if you’re there by now – I think you are) then passing Los Angeles. We are due under the Golden Gate Bridge at 05:15am, not sure I will be up to see that even though the clocks go back another hour tonight (that makes us eight hours behind you) and into San Francisco at 06:10am. Immigration again at 06:45am then 10:00am departure for Alcatraz. The weather forecast for tomorrow is 3°C when we arrive so it’s back to coats and scarves.

Went to the final talk on those who changed their worlds. Today was Margaret Thatcher followed by Gateways to the world (New York, would have been better to see before New York). Both had more people than usual as there was no sun up top for people to sit in. Apart from that not much else happened apart from eating, another lazy day, could get used to this.