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Yesterday's drive into wine country tired us out and we began to feel the need for some down time - time where we're not trying to accomplish anything. Rather than continuing to tour San Francisco, we decided to make a change to our schedule.
Our schedule was to tour Yosemite on Monday and Sequoia on Tuesday. We decided to drive to Fresno and get a hotel there for two to three days. We're also going to hit Sequoia first and then Yosemite on Tuesday. We figure that Sequoia will not be as tiring as Yosemite. It will be nice to live out of the same room for a few days.
We drove towards the crooked part of Lombard Street to see the "crookedest street in the world". We couldn't get close, however, as vans our size are prohibited from any of the steep streets surrounding the area of Lombard Street that has all the S-curves. We got within about five or six blocks. That was as close as we were allowed to go.
We then went South through San Jose to see the Winchester Mystery House. The widow to the man who invented the Winchester rifle spent thirty-seven years and five million dollars (perhaps a half billion in today's dollars) building and remodeling her mansion. Workmen worked twenty-four hours a day from 1885 to 1922 when she died. She apparently took the advice of a psychic who told her that she had to build into eternity to appease the spirits of all those killed by her husband's invention.
We drove onto Fresno in time for me to watch the Washington Redskins beat Arizona.
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