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re: 2 days in San Francisco

Posted by wbtiger86 on 5/3/22 at 12:53 am to
Some posters have already mentioned this but SF is so much more than downtown and fisherman’s wharf, the more neighborhoods and parks outside of downtown are where its at.

Crissy Field - walk the promenade, hit beach, go to Fort Point, if you have time you can hike the trail from here all the way to Lands End and Ocean Beach, fantastic views

North Beach - classic Italian neighborhood, picnic in Washington Square, walk up to Coit Tower and down the Filbert Steps on the backside

Alamo Square - great park with views and the painted ladies are classic, to the west of the park on Divisadero there’s lots of bars/restauarants, to the south the Duboce Park area is beautiful as well. Also Buena Vista Park and Corona Heights Park are wonderful as well.

Dolores Park - already mentioned, but beautiful views and park and people watching. Also right by the mission which has tons of great bars and restaurants and a fun somewhat hipster vibe

Bernal Heights Park - a hidden gem with some of the best views in the city, the neighborhood around is full of cool garden staircases. Cortland Street on the backside has great neighborhood vibe with some good spots including a great brewery (Bare Bottle)

Twin Peaks - top of the city

Golden Gate Park - could spend a day exploring this park - museums, botanical garden, conservatory of flowers, paddle boats on Stowe lake, beach chalet at the end by ocean beach

Embarcadero - a bit more touristy and downtown so more riff raff but great waterfront views and fun to check out all the piers, huge farmers market on sundays, ferry building has great shops inside and you can get a ferry here to Angel Island or Sausalito, both great day trips in their own right, ferry rides are worth it just to get views from the water, Reds on the other side of the bay bridge is a classic diner/burger spot

Marin Headlands and the trails around there are amazing, Rodeo Beach is great too and so close to the city. Muir Woods can get crazy, but biggest redwoods close to the city, if you’re up for a hike and some trail route finding you can walk in from the backside, otherwise gotta get a reservation. Muir Beach right down the road is awesome too. Tons of amazing trails up the mountain on Mt Tamalpais as well.

I live here in the city - could go on and on
Also this is a really good resource for hikes and general info on parks up and down the coast

LINK
Go to either Prairie Creek Redwoods SP or Jedediah Smith SP, or both. Those both have some of the biggest old growth that is easily accessible.

Redwoods NP is bigger in size but has a lot of second growth and the good old growth is pretty deep and harder to access. Humboldt is good too but I think the ones I mentioned are better. I live in Northern California and have been up there a lot.

re: Morocco

Posted by wbtiger86 on 12/28/18 at 7:19 am to
Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

I am looking at getting Chef and Essoauira on the itinerary.

Two questions for those who have been :
1. We are currently planning three nights each in Fes and Marrakech. Is this too many or a good amount? We typically are pretty high energy when we travel but also enjoy staying in places long enough to really soak it up.
2. How is the Essoauira to Marrakech trip? I understand it is by bus a few hours and am trying to fly in there to avoid a round trip bus ride but maybe it’s not so bad

Morocco

Posted by wbtiger86 on 12/21/18 at 8:56 am
Anyone ever been? I did a search and didn’t find much..

Wife and I are going early March for two weeks. So far we plan to go to Marrakech, Fes with a road trip to the Sahara in between. Then possibly a coastal town or Chefchaouen.

Done a lot of research online but curious if anyone here has any experience.
if you call yourself an economist and discount the growing trend towards walkable accessible urbane places i would love to see your argument
haha yeah laugh all you want but within our lifetime the urban housing market is gonna be the new trend, its happening in all the major cities

re: AU v FSU : AU pass defense

Posted by wbtiger86 on 12/31/13 at 10:15 pm to
thats an interesting stat, dont feel like looking up all the numbers but you would think the pass/offensive snaps attempts would be similar due to the pace of both of their offenses

re: AU v FSU : AU pass defense

Posted by wbtiger86 on 12/31/13 at 10:11 pm to
haha no...very winnable for auburn, malzahn has given AU an attitude and drive to win every game....that us unless its a heavy mist in Tiger Stadium :cheers:
hahaha, im an urban planner who is probably too tied into the obvious problem our country has with its obsession with cars

re: AU v FSU : AU pass defense

Posted by wbtiger86 on 12/31/13 at 9:58 pm to
interesting stats:

AU D :
Total fumbles gained : 3
Total INT gained : 13

FSU O :
Total fumbles lost : 4
Total INT lost : 13

if we look at stats, which obviously dont foretell everything, seems like the AU D should get theirs, should make for an offensive battle, coming down to the line of scrimmage IMHO
Anyone else calling total bullshite on this Nissan commercial (played over and over in the AtM v Duke Game). Obviously yes i know its a commercial, but car companies are just trying to battle against the overriding national (urban) push towards mass transit/bicycle transit

re: AU v FSU : AU pass defense

Posted by wbtiger86 on 12/31/13 at 9:35 pm to
on the time note, do yall think time (to prepare) favors defense or offense more?

re: AU v FSU : AU pass defense

Posted by wbtiger86 on 12/31/13 at 9:33 pm to
should be a great game either way, i'm sure y'all were hearing the same things 3 years ago, even with fairley and the chiz D

AU v FSU : AU pass defense

Posted by wbtiger86 on 12/31/13 at 9:08 pm
Stewart Mandel tweet- @slmandel: Worth noting: A&M did not finish last in the SEC in passing defense. That would be the team playing in the BCS title game.

watching this duke offense, will AU be able to slow the game down enough with their run game to negate the FSU offense?
manziel lookin like a true leader on the sidelines
seems duke is outscoring all of us on this atm D, makes me think AU is in for it with FSU
it seems like theyve been trying to force the JFF pass while not letting him do what he does with the run, now that theyre opening up the qb run theyre movin the ball, not sure its enough to overcome the shite arse D