Western USA and Canada Adventures – Part Three: NorCal and Point Reyes Road Trip

After a few days in San Francisco I arranged with some of my friends to do a day road trip. Through my travel guide book and messing around with Google Maps I discovered Point Reyes which is around an hour and a half north of San Francisco (or a little more in traffic).

Being a nerd, the main attraction of Point Reyes is that forms a peninsula situated on the Pacific Plate and is visibly separated from from the North American Plate by the San Andreas Fault which runs directly under Tomales Bay.

San Andreas Fault running directly under Tomales Bay
San Andreas Fault running directly under Tomales Bay
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Western USA and Canada Adventures – Part Two: San Francisco Dreaming

I spent three days with friends in San Francisco during my stay in California.

On the first of these three days I met up with two friends of mine who work for technology companies. After a tour around a company making autonomous cars we had lunch in at “The Market” which is directly below the Twitter head office. Following this my best mate and I began to walk around the Market Street and city hall area of San Francisco.

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