Personal Thoughts/San Francisco trip

Traveling these days is harder than it seem, but it doesn't have to be impossible. Recently on a trip to San Francisco for spring break, my fiancee and I were able to enjoy the beautiful city with just a few dollars in tow. We started out our trip going to San Jose and went to visit the Winchester Mystery House first since it was on the way. Stories have it that the house is haunted by the spirits of the people that have died from the Winchester rifles, making Mrs. Winchester hire a psychic for advice and the psychic advised her to continue building up the rooms in her home to keep the spirits confused. Basic mansion tours start at $23.00 dollars per person. After the tour, we headed to San Francisco to our hotel called Hotel Kabuki located in Japantown. We booked our rooms at cheaptickets.com where they were offering a great deal for 4 nights stay. *hint, when staying at this hotel, do not bother with their amenities like water and food, they have a Japanese mall right outside the hotel that sells food and water for half their price* This hotel usually goes for around $150-200 a night but we got our room for $80 a night! Also, when booking our trip, the site gave us a $50 dollar coupon from restaurant.com to enjoy in San Francisco. A couple of places comes to mind when remembering this trip. We enjoyed a night out to a local diner called Grubstake. Cheap and great good. When this place been featured in Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, you know you have to try it out! Mel's-Drive in is also a classic joint in San Francisco that one must try out too. What's great about it is that they are both open until about 2-4am. We visited a few interesting sights as well. Haight and Ashbury street is a fun place to walk around to see all the smoke shops, records stores, and vintage clothing stores in the heart of what i like to call hippie town. We spent the whole afternoon lost in this block, hitting up the different stores, and not spending a dime. Another place we have visited is Presidio National Park, a military outpost. Again, we just walked around took in the historical view and was able to enjoy the nature around us free of cost. We then headed to Golden Gate Bridge and enjoyed the view of all of San Francisco from there. Only have to pay $5 dollars to head back to the city from the bridge. One last thing i would suggest to check out in San Francisco and that is 6Th street and Howard. There is a building that has many weird quirks to it like furniture hanging out from the building. A sign of protest a few decades ago.