Day 2 San Francisco (Sunday)

We made it to San Francisco mid afternoon Sunday. We are impressed by the house we found to rent. It's a beautiful large Victorian near Cliff's apartment. The couple who own it live in it and rent it out occasionally for a few days at a time. It works well for us.

Cliff kept us busy helping him buy some furniture. He rented a truck through Zip Cars and took us around town looking at furniture advertised through Craigslist. First, we looked at a futon that he ended up buying, then headed across town to see a bed set that he didn't like. Cliff didn't want the used futon mattress that came with the frame that works just right. I wondered how he was going to get rid of the futon. He told us that was easy. He left it on the street in front of his apartment, posted to Craigslist about the free futon in front of his house, then left with us. He bet us that it would be gone when we came back. We had doubts. It doesn't work like that in Bellevue. We took the truck back, then headed across the bay for IKEA to look at beds there. He found one he liked as well as some other things. The trouble was that his bed frame was out of stock. It should be in by Tuesday. It's amazing how well IKEA packages things to fit in cars. We should be able to get the bed frame to Cliff, then help him assemble it on Tuesday night before we go. We had dinner at a nice Thai restaurant. We had been missing Thai style food when we were in Tucson. When we took Cliff home, the futon was gone just like he said it would be!