The Exciting Eppersons: San Francisco

Mike has started working with a coach to help him start his chiropractic business. The name of the group is New Beginnings and at the beginning of October they had a conference in San Francisco. It was just one day so we debated how we would get there. At first we were going to fly but we waited too long to get tickets so we decided to drive. It was about 12 hours to San Francisco but we were up for it. I was excited because it was my first trip to Northern California!

We left super early in the morning and had a lot of fun driving to San Francisco. The drive was really pretty. The best part was driving from Reno to Sacramento. We stopped at Donner Lake which was beautiful. The pictures didn't do the scenery justice.

Reno, NV Temple

Getting into San Francisco was interesting. California never fails to amaze me with its horrible traffic but San Francisco may have been the worst. We went across the Bay Bridge (which took forever) into Oakland and let me tell you...you couldn't pay me to go back to Oakland. I have never been so scared in a city or so disgusted by what I saw. I was so happy to leave and go back into San Francisco. We found out the next morning that their was a baseball game on Friday night so the traffic in the opposite direction was awful. When we finally made it to our hotel we were ready to relax. We stayed at a 5 star hotel that is usually over $600 a night. It was nice but really nothing spectacular. We hit the gym as soon as we got there because after 12 hours in a car it felt good to move. Then we got dinner and ate in our hotel room, in our pj's and watched Gilmore Girls :) A lovely and relaxing evening. Then the best part was that we went to bed early and slept for 8 hours completely uninterrupted!

The conference was on Saturday and it was awesome! I was worried that I would be bored because I'm not a chiropractor but they did a great job showing how the principles and skills you use to be a better chiropractor can also help you to be a better spouse, parent and just overall person.

"You must surrender who you are, to become who you were meant to be!"

"My attitude determines my altitude and I choose to fly very high"

"I am not raising wolves. I am not raising sheep. I am raising sheep dogs- they protect the sheep from the wolves"

We headed for home that night. I had two requests of things to do on this very short trip. One was to see the Golden Gate bridge and actually drive across it and the second was to see the house that they used for the exterior of the house in Full House.

Driving to see the house was kind of fun because I got to experience some of the famous San Francisco hills. The roads are scary though and don't make any sense. The house was fun to see though! I love that they put up a gate so people would stop sitting on the steps haha but I bet its annoying having people constantly taking pictures of your house.

The Golden Gate Bridge was amazing! It didn't disappoint for sure! It was bigger than I expected and it was beautiful in the sunshine.

The city

Alcatraz

Instead of driving through the night we stopped halfway in Winnemucca, NV. Mike did great on the drive though.

On the way home we stopped at the Bonneville Salt Flats. I was a bit sad because most of it was covered in water. It was really pretty though but a little bright.