Today we stated out with an unusual awakening to find out Martin's car had been broken into, but the perpetrator had been apprehended and still had his radio; although a small rear door window had been broken. This set back our time schedule a little bit bat all worked out well. Our two brave adventurers set out again undeterred and set forth toward San Francisco and stopped to do the super touristy Golden Gate Bridge. The view of the Bay, bridge and city was spectacular. We could see Alcatraz mid-bay, with the water as cold as it was I don't think I would have sanely attempted escape from that small isolated island. Mark: The amazing thing about the break in was that they didn't take my camera which was sitting on the floor of the front passenger section. I would have been more upset with the loss of the film than the camera. I�m hoping we captured at least a small percentage of the beauty we have seen. After the Golden Gate Bridge it was further north to Marin, home of the great mountain bikes, and Muir Woods. Apparently the redwoods of Muir woods are a smaller species that the Giant Sequoias in the Sierra Nevada's. We'll have to take their word on it as these were the largest trees I have ever seen. We picked a small trail loop and hiked through the reserve. Unfortunately the trail was only small on the map and two and a half hours later we were completely worn out. We still managed to enjoy every minute of it. A $5.00 cheese sandwich and some coke tamed the snarling wolverine tucked in Debbie's shirts, refreshed we headed back to the car, but behind schedule. Further north near San Rafael, we stopped at a great windsurfing shop. One hour, $500 and lots of wiggling and tugging as we tried on gear, we left with matching wet suits for us both. Unfortunately it was now 4pm and despite a heroic 1 hour drive from Marin to San Jose we ran out of time and energy to windsurf today. Once we returned and weighed our options with Martin for the evening ahead of us, we ultimately decided to join in on a laser tag game with a bunch of Martin's coworkers from SGI. $6 per person for about a half and hour of dodging people in a multi-level maze was well worth it. I ended up being fairly well camouflaged wearing all dark colors in an area completely lit from black lights. I beat both Mark and Martin coming in 8th place out of 16 participants. Unlike Mark's macho charging through the beginning of the game I employed the stake-out-cool-areas strategy which probably saved me from being cremated. This was a first time thing for both Mark and I, we worked up quite a sweat getting a great work out. Oh yeah, dinner was a quick meal from a burrito place, the burrito was about the size of a football with just about everything in it, yummy, yummy. This place is famous for creating the largest burrito in the Guinness book of world records. Once we retired for the evening we tried to get some laundry done but ended up sitting up and talking with Martin. Long day with plenty of exercise and we�re beat so we're going to bed! [1/30/2004--Note: Muir Woods was the high light of this trip, I wanted to see these huge and aging trees for myself, this is a place I would go to again, or at least I would want to visit another stand of these trees, beautiful, quiet and majestic.]