We made it through checkin and security… Sure glad I printed boarding
passes at the hotel last night!! We should start boarding shortly…

Well, our day’s excursions ended with a crossing over the Oakland Bay Bridge complex and arriving back into San Francisco.

The crossing over the Bay Bridge gave us a nice view of the San Francisco skyline, including a view of the Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill:

Fortunately, we made it back to the hotel before the worst of the rush hour. We did hit a little heave traffic in a couple spots, but since it was still just before 3 pm, it was not too bad.

Since we rented a car, and had decided not to walk around San Francisco, we thought we might as well take a drive up north to wine country. It is only about a hour’s drive up to Napa, and we stopped at a Wendy’s for lunch about 12:30 pm. We were both impressed by the size of the vineyards.

Certainly much larger than anything we have seen in New York State. We did not take the time to stop at any of the vineyards, but did enjoy the ride up to Napa and back.

After leaving M&H Type Casters, we drove around the Presidio to the Golden Gate Bridge, stopping a couple places to take pictures of the entrance to the San Francisco Bay:

Then we finally made it around to the bridge and crossed over to the north side:

At this point, we decided it was a very cool, breezy and foggy day to spend walking around San Francisco, and we were both a little tired from the trip yesterday. This is what San Francisco looked like across the bay at the north end of the bridge:

After a nice cooked to order breakfast at the hotel this morning, we got underway for M&H Type Founders on the site of the former Presidio at the south end of the Golden Gate bridge. Kenny Howard gave us a great personal tour of the facility showing us all the toys and gadgets a true letterpress printer should have in his shop. No, I don’t have some of them, but wish I did….

We were met at the door with a beautiful Hand Press:

Here is their line of Monotype Composition Casters:

And their line of Thompson casters along with an elrod and two supercasters:

We got out of there about 10:30am, and it was a good hour spent to see how M&H Typecasters are helping to keep the letterpress world supplied with “foundry style” type for the small shop and hobbyist.