Day 7 - Alcatraz Island

If you are traveling to San Francisco, and plan to stay in a hostel, here’s a tip from me: Down here in SF, all private rooms are subjected to 14% tax. Mixed rooms, on the other hand, are not taxable. For example, if you and 3 of your friends stays in one room, that’s considered a private room. However, if you, one friend of yours and 2 other people stay in that same room, it’s not a private room, i.e. not taxable. Spent the whole morning trying to figure out how come we paid extra..

Alcatraz Island’s the one and only itinerary for the day. Hmm Prison Break anyone? The place’s kinda errie.. We have this device that would give us an guided audio tour of the whole place, it has actual and dramatised narratives, it’s so good that while walking along the cells with that thing, it felt the voices were coming out from the cells..scary.. The isolation cell.. Castrophobic. The whole freaking island smells of bird poo. Why? Because it’s also a protected Sea Bird roosting area.

Dinner was some “street” food at the Wharfs: Clam Chowder, Calamari (freaking huge portion) and Mini donuts.

Heading back to Singapore tomorrow!! (NO!!!!!!!!!!)

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