Sausalito and San Francisco with family and boating friends

September 19th - 28th

Wow did we really get lucky! Last minute I sent an email to Williwaw, the boat name of a cruising family of old friends, that we hadn't seen or talked to in years! Keith, Terrie, Jason and Jessie, insisted we come to stay with them "on the dock of the bay" in Sausalito a city right outside of San Francisco where also, our niece Frances Lesher lives along with Henry her husband to be.

Keith and Terrie own a house boat which simulates the days when they were once cruisers combined with a life they once lived on land in Santa Cruz. Now they have the best of both worlds wrapped up into one world on their newly renovated house boat. Terrie and Keith still have their motor yacht, Williwaw, which is where we stayed at night time for a little over a week which is located at the marina about a "city block" down on the water. Awesome memories of our past boating life aboard Duchesse as we took their dinghy each night back to Williwaw.

Keith and Terrie's house boat in Sausalito, CA the back view from the dinghy.

Keith and Terries house boat front view

The "Williwaw" family, Terrie, Jessie, Jason and Keith

The "Duchesse" family

The famous house boat that looks like an owl and note the fog on the mountain. Check out this Sausalito house boat tour 2009 you tube clip for a little history and peak of some of the famous funky structures.

Just a neighbor's house boat that really still looks like a boat.

Sea lions just hanging out as we take the dinghy from the house boat to the boat Williwaw

San Francisco at Pier 39 where the sea lions took over!

Here's Dick, the friendly begging seagull, who hangs out on Terrie and Keith's deck daily.

Shopping in San Francisco

Randall and Keith cooking

Girls out shopping at the local arts and craft show in Sausalito

Teenagers just "hanging out"

Frances and Henry

Randi and Frances

Frances and Henry

Randi and Frances on the house boat deck

Me shopping for a hat...?

The house boats in Sausalito are where some famous artists, song writers, painters, and authors have created their famous pieces! Songs you know like "sitting on the dock of the bay...." by Otis Redding and other artists' music like Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Jackson Brown, The Grateful Dead and other famous people and groups have created here. Shell Silverstein author of children's poems and books lived on a house boat down this dock.

Simply put, an artists haven. Beauty surrounds your senses!