Everything In Between

Taking advantage of Internet access tonight, I thought I’d post another quick update about what Sara and I are doing in San Francisco.

Day One, the Walking Tour

Yesterday we did a lightning-quick walking tour of San Francisco’s East side. We started at the Caltrain depot in on 4^th and Townsend, walked up towards Union Square passed the Yerba Beuna Gardens, the Metreon, the Apple Store, and Union Square towards Grant Street. Then we headed straight through Chinatown on Grant Street, and as I predicted we stopped in a bunch of stores.

We then hit Colombus Street, took a left up Vallejo, a right on Hyde, and walked to Lombard Street, the crooked part. Pictures galore, and then down Lombard all the way to Coit Tower. We took the stairs down Telegraph Hill on Greenwhich Street and ended up on the Embarcadero which we next followed all the way up to Fisherman’s Wharf.

Day Two, the Driving Tour

Today, instead of taking the Caltrain, we drove into the city all the way up to the Marina and the Exploratorium (aka the Palace of Fine Arts). I spent two hours being a five-year-old in the Exploratorium before we headed back to the car and drove into Japantown on Geary Boulevard. We ate at a restaurant across from the Peace Pavillion (same restaurant as when I came there a year—no, two years?—ago with Danica), and then walked through the malls.

Afterwards, we drove back down Geary all the way to Lobos Point and down by the Cliff House. We turned into the Sunset district on Lincoln Way, then South on Sunset Boulevard, and finally down several residential streets. We ended up on Taraval and took it down Dewey Road towards Market Street, where we eventually turned onto 17^th Street in the Castro.

We turned right on Valencia Street, and parked on 21^st Street for a stop in Good Vibrations (link is not necessarily work-safe, depending on what you do). The sun had set by the time we left the store, new “literature” in hand, and we walked back up 17^th Street towards Castro Street. I got a button-pin-thing and Sara got some fabric, and then we both had pizza when we turned down 18^th back towards Valencia and the car.

The finale was driving down Mission Street into downtown where we parked a few blocks away from the Metreon and headed into the Imax at Loews to see Serenity. Great fun all around, and yes, pictures are forthcoming.

Photos, as promised. (Though none of San Francisco yet. Sorry.)