Pilgrimage for family heritage

Today was mainly a travel day for us, as we moved from San Francisco to Monterey. We had a change in plans, in that yesterday we discovered that the USPS website wasn't very clear about acceptable measurements for packages so they wouldn't ship the bike cases we had bought and hauled by foot 2 blocks to the post office. So, we took them back to the bike shop overnight and returned today after picking up our rental car (plan B for shipping = FedEx, plan C = as baggage on Air Canada).

Which meant that we were actually in San Francisco with a rental car (not our original plan) - so as we were going out to the coastal highway to drive to Monterey, we were able to take the time to visit the Roald Amundsen monument at the western edge of Golden Gate Park. Amundsen was my great-grandfather's cousin, and as an explorer was the first to reach the South Pole. He was also the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, and the monument was initially there with his ship, the Gjoa, in which he made that voyage. The ship was apparently moved to Oslo, Norway, in 1972. In researching where the monument was located, I learned that it was 100 years ago from last October when the Gjoa arrived in San Francisco after the historic voyage through the Northwest Passage. (and when I visited the monument with my family in 1983, I don't recall it being in the middle of a parking lot - apparently the nearby "Beach Chalet" which was closed in 1983 has since been renovated and reopened, and presumably the parking lot was enlarged significantly).