re: San Francisco Trip

I can't imagine 5 days in San Fran. It's a cool city, but we did 3 and did everything and were glad to leave.

Did Napa for a day and night and down to pebble beach for a day.

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I can't imagine 5 days in San Fran. It's a cool city, but we did 3 and did everything and were glad to leave.

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Your opinion pisses me off. Not even sure what else to say.

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I can't imagine 5 days in San Fran. It's a cool city, but we did 3 and did everything and were glad to leave.

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I was there for 3 weeks this summer and didn't scratch the surface of things to do.

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You prolly spent all three days at the museum in GGP, amirite?

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Of course not! He also went to pier 39, rode on a trolley, and went to dragons gate.

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I can't imagine 5 days in San Fran. It's a cool city, but we did 3 and did everything and were glad to leave.

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So you got focaccia warm from the oven at Liguria Bakery on Stockton in North Beach, followed up by an espresso at Graffeo's on Columbus, followed by a climb up the hill to admire the view from Coit Tower? The wild parrots put up a racket in eucalyptus trees during the early evening.

And you walked the coastal trail from Mile End beach all the way past the ruins of the Sutro baths, past the seal rocks up to Cliff House, where you can have a drink while watching the sun set into the Pacific?

I guess you rode your bike across the Golden Gate into Sausalito, then took the ferry back across the Bay on a day when the Ferry Building farmer's market was in full swing?

The idea that San Francisco can be "done" in 3 or 5 days is the product of an extremely narrow viewpoint, or an unwillingness to actually *go* outside.

You haven't lived until you've drank a couple bottles of wine with your SO watching the model sailboat races on Spreckels lake in Golden Gate park.

San Francisco, like most great cities really comes alive when you slow down to take it all in...it's like being in a forest, replete with old Chinese men driving RC sailboats bitching their arse off in native tongue about someone's illegal maneuver. Probably not something you should seek out on a few day trip, but priceless none the less.

ETA: drink rec...Tommy's Mexican Restaurant down Geary, after hiking around Land's End...definitely not before, to get their version of margaritas. It's a really fun place to get pie-eyed off tequila.

Oh jeez, you don't have to tell me. My wife loves the tacos (they deep fry the whole thing with meat in it). I think it's repulsive, especially for SF. I mentioned for drink...it's a bar to me.

Another bar I loved was The Bitter End. Their mixed grill brunch plate was/is insane.