After a 4 a.m. wakeup call to hit the road -- or the airways, whichever the case may be -- Hearsay finally made it to the San Francisco area Saturday afternoon, California time.Hearsay's first stop was the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Opened in 1937, the legendary structure would cost approximately $1.2 billion in today's currency. At 4,200 feet in length, it's the seventh-longest suspension bridge in the world.
And ... there are 600,000 rivets in each of the bridge's famous towers. In the top photo, Hearsay gets a little help from a fellow tourist overlooking the bridge.
In the second photo, Hearsay is shown with Alcatraz Island in the background (just to the right of his ear). For years one of the most notorious prisons in the world, Alcatraz was "home" to a host of infamous criminals -- Al Capone, George "Machine Gun" Kelly and Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz."
At least three movies have been based on the island -- Escape From Alcatraz, starring Clint Eastwood; The Rock, with Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage and Ed Harris; and Murder in the First, with Christian Slater and Kevin Bacon.
