Lucky Us

Our essential guide to the area pointed us to an In-N-Out near our hotel, but first we needed to park. You can imagine that parking in the City is as much fun as driving there. We had been forewarned about the meters on the street, but it's still disconcerting to see a quarter grant you a measly 6 minutes.

This is when our amazing vacation luck started. I'll try to point out all the lucky things that occurred, but at this point assume that if there is a deal to be had, we got it. Our first taste of luck was the ridiculous parking spot we scored. It's Saturday, on Fisherman's Wharf, and we roll up and park across the street from In-N-Out. It was such a nice park we didn't even have to parallel park to get in it, and it was right in front a funny little café called Pergamino. There was a silly sign above the store that said World Famous Breakfast. We figured we'd call them on that bluff tomorrow.

We stepped into the burger place and ordered our food. Notice I didn't say we got in line. Another benefit of the vacation luck was that we were on a different time schedule than everyone else. We were two hours ahead of everyone else, so invariably when we arrived anywhere we were immediately helped. As soon as we were done there would be a line out the door.