California Vacation Part 1: Alcatraz Island

I am lucky enough to have gone on many awesome trips - let me tell you about the most recent one. It was a trip to the northern and central parts of California. We went to San Fransico for the start of the trip, and then we went to Monterey and then San Luis Obispo. We were in San Francisco for five days and four nights. We stayed at the Ritz Hotel on Nob Hill. The club room (a special dining and living room for the top floors) was fantastic, the food was superb and the view was amazing. But the view from the room was nothing compared with Alcatraz. We went to Alcatraz on a Sunday night...a dark, cold, misty, rainy night...on a ferry. We heard all the crazy stories about break-outs and what it was like to be a guard. It would have been terrible to be a guard - you might get shot and never see your family again. I even saw where Al Capone (a famous gangster) was kept in the 1930's.