Day 47 (June 18): Berkeley, California

I used airbnb.com to book a small cottage in the backyard of a large house on Cedar Street. Cedar Street is perpendicular to Shattuck; where I was staying was North of Shattuck, up an incline, an incline which, for the last block and a half or so (especially lugging 50 lbs of, well, luggage) seemed to be at 45 degrees.  So I figured that I would go up a few blocks, figuring there probably was a worthwhile view of San Francisco Bay to be had.

Well, after three and a half hours of trudging uphill through the Berkeley Hills (I'm just assuming that is what they are called), criss-crossing the Tilden Regional Park (again, mostly uphill) and following one last path to the top of Volmer Peak (elevation 1,905 feet), finally there was a view...

San Francisco, from Volmer Peak.

East of Volmer Peak.

I then somehow managed to end up at the very top of the University of California (Berkeley) campus, which goes up into the hills. Part of the reason was to see the Applied Mathematics Institute, (a nondescript building; I was expecting maybe fractals?), but I did end up at some sort of Science Museum, which also provided a nice panoramic view of the Bay...