Sunday's Column - Alcatraz

This Sunday's column was about our trip to Alcatraz, which was covered here on the blog a few weeks back.  It was a part of our inter-coastal cruise aboard the Princess Sapphire.
This view is a little misty as it often is across the San Francisco Bay, and one of the reasons that the prison was too hard to keep going with all the corrosion.  It was closed in 1964, but not before Frank Morris and two friends made a daring escape by digging through their cell walls with spoons.  It took them a year and they have never been found.  Since it's closure it has become one of the country's top tourist attractions.  It's always crowded so book up early.  Even with the people, it's possible to imagine how bleak it must have been if you were incarcerated there.  But in order to do so,  you had to have been one of the "worst of the worst," which as a reader of this bog I am sure you are not!  You can read the entire column - when the Sun decides to get it up! at www.sbsun.com/trevorstravels