This is our last day - incredible how fast those 3 weeks have passed!
After breakfast, packing, and cleaning we drive over to Oakland to the Cruisa America office to return the motor home.
While we take a last look at our dear motor home, the lady in the office hardly casts a glance. We get reimbursed for the day we lost because of the open valve and the weak battery, leave our leftovers with a German couple who starts their 6-week-tour today, and wait for a friend to pick us up. She lives in San Francisco and we can leave our luggage in her place as there are hardly any public luggage lockers available. Since we're five people with 5+ bags, she needs to do two trips, dropping me and my brother off in Chinatown before she gets the rest of us. While waiting for them, we buy some more stamps to mail our last postcards and a state quarter collector's album for my brother.
By then we're reunited, meeting up with a friend from my year in France.
Now my brother wants to shop at the Levis store at Union Square. He promised to bring home two pairs of jeans for a friend of his, but first he needs to figure out what the European colour codes relate to in the US - thank God there's wifi in the store's foyer. *smile*
We need a Starbucks coffee as a reward for waiting now! Sitting down at Union Square which 6 years back was only a big construction site, we munch on our sandwiches and just can't figure out what to do next. It is afternoon, we have a few hours left before we need to get to the airport.
So we're trying to find a bus to the Golden Gate Bridge. Not that easy, but we manage *smile* We need to change buses once and walk a bit inbetween, but we make it to the bridge!
It's awefully windy out there so we only manage to stay for a couple of minutes before catching the bus back. We go to our friend's house where we left our luggage. She most generously offered to take us to the airport as did the other friend. So we load our luggage into the cars and split up. My parents and my brother are taken to the airport while me and my other brother still need to buy one or two extra bags - too much luggage to take back *g*.
Unfortunately, the nearby Walgreens doesn't have any, the little shops in Chinatown where we saw bags today, are already closed, and there's no Walmart to be seen along the freeway. Bad luck! We're forced to buy two rather expensive and small bags at the airport now, but well...
The check-in takes forever. We should have reserved our seats in advance and my brother can't just get off in Munich instead of coming to Berlin with us. Luckily, there's always an exception to the rule *smile*. Now we've got to hurry, there's hardly any time left to grab a bite to eat - our names are called for immediate boarding! See you in Germany!
* Sarah Brightman
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