* Be ready to pay with cash (SF is a town without credit)
* Wear comfortable shoes
* Read the map scale carefully ("a few blocks that way" can be deceiving)
* Beware of THE FOG
* Good luck finding Hayes Valley
* Know that "hills" is an understatement (particularly the Russian ones)
* Do not eat at Lori's Diner (to be regretted the next morning by all parties)
* Wear your elastic pants to Ghirardelli Square
* Pack an extra memory card for the 385 photos you will take
* Get scared by The Bushman
* Check out the Get Offs at the Hemlock Tavern (only if you have industrial strength ear plugs)
* Try not to get killed by the rabid cyclists
* Skip Shakespeare's Gardn [sic] at Golden Gate Park. Jenn's description is far more satisfying than the actual garden.
* Contemplate that the Japanese Tea Garden is worth seeing but maybe not $4 worth seeing and how you would've been much less disappointed if you'd only had to pay $2.
* Avoid the cable car with the scary herky-jerky driver
* See the sea lions
* Prepare yourself for smells ranging from garbage to urine to beer to homeless people to dirty bay water to unidentifiable odors that you'd rather not even contemplate what they actually are.
* Buy art from Eduardo Gustav on Fisherman's Wharf
* Meet up with old friends
* Spend too much money
* Flirt with the European boys on the pier
* Get chills in isolation #13 at Alcatraz
* Giggle on the giggle hallway in the Powell Hotel
* Be prepared to be very, very, very sad when you have to leave
Thursday, May 01, 2008
If You're Going to San Francisco...
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8 cat calls:
That damn sundae. I can't get it out of my head. How very rare that something actually tastes as good as it looks.
wow, that is one colossal sundae.
what a great list.
Which Lori's Diner? There are five of them in SF!
Someday I must go! Sounds like you ladies had a good time! Complete with curiosities. The giggle hallway?
I advise all folks who like to be kind to their intestinal track avoid the LD on Powell Street just down from Sephora and French Connection UK.
Pen...the giggle hallway requires some explanation...I suppose it is likely to be touched on in future posts.
I still feel very, very, very sad that we are not still there!
It sounds like you girls had fun. I'm glad you went. You all deserved a vacation.
Great list. Love that you guys made it to The Hemlock. That's my crew's favorite watering hole. Well, ONE of them anyway.
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