Please forgive me if you are from Los Angeles but we just returned from yet another enchanted visit to our favorite city, San Francisco. The photo of two ships crossing under the 'Gate was taken from Fort Baker on the northern end of the bridge and the fort is just one of a thousand attractions in this west coast cosmopolitan city.
We picked a sunny weather window with mild temps and focused on linking up with our grandkids at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park so it was an A+ trip all around.
First of all we didn't drive around The City. We stayed in the Marina District ($79 at the Cow Hollow Motor Inn with free parking) and took the bus to the Academy. Good thing too, parking was really scarce there. The bus fare was 50 cents and it took about :15 from the motel.
The Academy is a must-see; a recent major remodel of the original and a fantastic job. Aquarium, natural history museum, planetarium, and the big attration . . . a green roof. Planted with native plants that need little water it is an achievement not to mention the edge of the wave. Several urban skyscrapers are adapting the idea.
The same #28 bus also stops at the bridge and we walked about halfway across, just missing the crews ratcheting up the suspension cables to paint them. A container ship was passing below as we marveled.
Yes, the City lives at night. We consistently qualified for the Early Bird Special dinners because we ate before 8PM. The City is just coming awake at that hour. Dinner for us is 7-ish when we are home but that is not the rule with the Beautiful People in this city. Eight PM is when you might ARRIVE at the designated restaurant but you EAT much, much later. San Francisco is a night-life city, far beyond Sally and my means to enjoy.
Not only are the women all young and gorgeous and the men young and hunky but it seemed like every single car was a BMW, Porsche, Saab, or Jaguar. I'm sure I missed the Hyundai's like ours but well, I haven't seen a Bentley in Siskiyou County for a long time so those I did see in SF were a treat.
Did I mention we had East Coast pizza with our grandkids at their favorite pizzeria? There was an Amici's next to the motel that did this kind too, thin crust with the home-baked aroma. Wish we had one here.
Too much to tell, I'll do another installment on myshastina.com. Stay tuned.
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