Chapter 234: I Have a Dream
When it comes to what to do in San Francisco, it's nothing more than those few places.
Alcatraz Island, the Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman's Wharf, and then the world-famous Silicon Valley.
If that's not enough, you can check out Chinatown.
Zhang Bin: Their goal today is Alcatraz.
Alcatraz Island, is a 22-acre, rocky island.
It was once used by the U.S. federal government to hold some special inmates, but now it is a great place for people to visit.
The tour guide called by the hotel is a woman in her thirties, quite petite, can speak Chinese, called Gu Jingxiang, she introduced herself as a Chinese, has lived here for almost 20 years, and her main job is to receive some tourists from the mainland.
Now there are not many people doing this kind of work in the United States, because the mainland is developing rapidly, more and more people are traveling abroad, and the demand for tour guides is relatively large, so the business is not bad.
Zhang Bin: They said that they would pay a commission of two hundred dollars in one afternoon, and the whole process would be served.
Such a price is not bad, Gu Jingxiang agreed with great satisfaction.
Next, Gu Jingxiang took Zhang Bin and them to the dock to buy tickets.
A ticket to Alcatraz Island is ten dollars, and Zhang Bin and his group of five people are fifty dollars.
Zhang Bin exchanged two thousand dollars in cash in the hotel, which should be enough for this time.
After buying the tickets, ten minutes later, a cruise ship drove over, not big, two stories high, with a small deck of more than ten square meters in front.
As soon as Zhang Bin and the others went up, Zhou Jingyu pulled him to feel the feeling of the Titanic back then.
"This boat is too small, in the future, I will buy a big cruise ship, you will be the hostess at that time, let's feel it again", Zhang Bin hugged Zhou Jingyu from behind, leaning on the guardrail, looking at Alcatraz Island in the distance.
"Really, you're going to buy me a big cruise ship?" Zhou Jingyu closed her eyes and felt the pure sea breeze, and said with a smile.
"It's true," Zhang said.
"You know what, I have a dream," Zhou Jingyu said with open arms and a calm sea.
"What?" Zhang Bin asked.
"By the sea, I have my own small house, a small boat, facing the sea, and the spring flowers are blooming," Zhou Jingyu said with a smile.
"It will happen".
When people went to Alcatraz, Zhang Bin found that half of them were Asian faces.
As soon as they got on the boat, everyone just raised the camera in their hands and clicked and took pictures.
Chen Yi and Wu Long stood beside Zhang Bin and Zhou Jingyu, but no one dared to get too close.
Gu Jingxiang was beside them to explain the history of Alcatraz Island and how to visit it correctly.
Soon, the cruise ship docked at the Alcatraz Island pier, and Zhang Bin and his party walked down.
Walk up a rocky staircase and you'll be on Alcatraz.
Here, you can also see some relics left behind by the former detention of those who were convicted of serious crimes.
In the past, it was a place full of sin, and the government locked them up here, allowing them to look out at the beautiful San Francisco in the distance and feel their own repentance.
Every visitor to the island will be sent an audio guide, worn on the ear, which can automatically help you explain the history of Alcatraz Island, and can automatically tune to the Chinese translation.
The island is not big, and you can't walk for too long, but you can spend a lot of time to experience each place.
Zhang Bin and Zhou Jingyu stood on a flat rock in front of Alcatraz Island, looking at San Francisco in the distance, it was indeed beautiful, perhaps, this is the meaning of these people being locked up here in the first place.
When leaving, Zhou Jingyu bought two books, which were memoirs that the prisoners here once wrote here.
"You still like to watch these things?" Zhang Bin asked.
Zhou Jingyu: "Everyone has a good side, no matter what he has done, at least, at the moment when he writes down his memories, it is the purest, and there is no harm in reading it."
When I came back from Alcatraz Island, it was already more than five o'clock in the afternoon, although I could still go and see, but Zhang Bin didn't want everyone to be so tired, so he put the time on the next day.
The next morning, Gu Jingxiang was waiting outside early.
"Have you had breakfast?" Zhou Jingyu asked.
"Thank you, I've eaten it", Gu Jingxiang said with a smile.
Today, Zhang Bin: Their destination is the Golden Gate Bridge and Fisherman's Wharf.
In fact, travel is said to relax, but most of the time it is very tiring, unless you can have a car all the way, and then the itinerary is not too tight.
So Zhang Bin asked Gu Jingxiang to rent a car, an Audi.
Chen Yi and Wu Long sat in the front, and Zhang Bin sat in the back.
Despite this, at the end of the day, Zhang Bin was still tired.
I bought a lot of things at Fisherman's Wharf, many of them were souvenirs, as well as girls' accessories, clothes and so on.
These are all bought by Zhang Bin for Zhou Jingyu and given to her roommates.
If you go abroad and don't bring anything back, it seems that you can't talk about it.
The next day, Zhang Bin and the others were about to go to Napa Valley, so when they separated, he paid Gu Jingxiang a total of 600 US dollars.
Such a salary can be said to be very high, six hundred US dollars, which can be enough for a white-collar worker to work hard for a month in China, which made Gu Jingxiang pleasantly surprised, knowing that she had met a distinguished guest, and thanked her repeatedly.
On the morning of the 20th, Zhang Bin and his entourage took the hotel car to Napa Valley, and the Napa Valley at this time was a different scenery than the last time Zhang Bin came.
"It's so beautiful", looking at the scenery of Napa Valley in front of her, Zhou Jingyu couldn't help but sigh.
"We're going to stay here for the next three days, you'll appreciate enough," Zhang Bin said with a smile as he stroked Zhou Jing's waist with one hand.
In June, there are even more tourists coming to Napa Valley, and the front of the hot air balloon is full of queues of tourists waiting to ride the hot air balloon.
"Wow", watching the huge hot air balloons rise into the sky, Zhou Jingyu seemed to be very eager.
"Want to give it a try?" Zhang Bin asked.
Zhou Jingyu nodded, her expression very excited.
Zhang Bin called Kerry, Kerry was also very busy at the recent Napa Valley Wine Fair, but Zhang Bin came, and he still had to come out to pick it up.
Kerry came out in a car, and he didn't let Zhang Bin and them wait too long.
"Thank you for your hard work", Zhang Bin is embarrassed to trouble others, but if you want to get the priority of hot air balloon riding, you can't do it without a little connection.
It is impossible for Zhang Bin to tell others that he knows Harlan, and it is strange that people will pay attention to him.
"No, it's my pleasure to serve the shareholders, and Mr. Harlan will be glad you are here," Kerry said with a smile, and then led Zhang Bin and them to a relatively large hot air balloon, and after a few words with the person in charge, they let them go up first.
Having money is not only good at home, but also better abroad.
The hot air balloon slowly rose into the air, and Zhou Jingyu firmly grasped the basket in front of her, looking nervous and seemingly worried.
Zhang Bin put one hand around her waist and grabbed the pole with the other.
He'd ridden it once, and this time it was going to be much easier.
The hot air balloon floats slowly in the air, and the scenery below is unobstructed.
Zhou Jingyu seemed to be shocked by the scenery in front of her, and was silent for a long time, and suddenly said, "I think I really fall in love here."
(There's no state today, I'm sorry, my brain is a mess, everyone has no reaction, Lao Li can't lift his energy, it's just two chapters today, Lao Li take a break, and continue tomorrow)