I'd second Dave's suggestion. The ferry rides are nice. If Amtrak gets you to Oakland, that would be a nice day. City Lights is a must see if you are a book lover. Be sure to check out the upstairs and downstairs and check out the alley next to it where they've put beat poet quotes in the sidewalk. If you are there at night, there is a nice installation piece of lights above the street corner. They are books flying above the sidewalk. Caffe Trieste, where the beat poets used to hang out, is close by when you get to Washington Square. Yelp a good place to eat in whatever area you are in. Whatever you are in the mood for at that moment, there is a good chance you'll find it. If you want to venture an Uber, I'd also suggest the view from the observation tower at the DeYoung Museum in Golden Gate Park. Great place to see the city. That is also walking distance up Stanyan to Haight Ashbury (kinda grungy) and American Cyclery at the corners of Frederick and Stanyan. A backup option, if you are sticking close to Dave's route, is to hike up the hill to Coit Tower. Great views of the city and the Public Works Art Project murals inside the ground floor are impressive.
Enjoy your trip. John On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 at 9:50:24 PM UTC-7, dstein wrote: > > Here's my suggestion to the pile. This is a walk I recommend for one day > sightseeing. Starts off at the Ferry Building (which the ferry will drop > you off at if you choose to do that, also right by Embarcadero BART if you > take BART in, and a great place to start off with some coffee and food, I > can't recommend the waffles at blue bottle enough!), then walks down Market > (which kind of sucks), heads up Grant through Chinatown (you gotta hit > Grant from Market to get the full effect), into North Beach and Washington > Square Park (lots of food options there including an already mentioned > pizza option, plus there is Vesuvio for beer, and City Lights for books, > all the important things), and then up to Fisherman's Wharf (this last part > of the walk also kinda sucks), and catches another Ferry which you can take > back to Oakland. > > I like it because I like walking and exploring by foot. It hits some main > tourist areas while avoiding the main shopping artery of Union Square. > Fisherman's Wharf can be mostly skipped, I do recommend stopping to see the > sea lions, it always makes my day. > > Golden gate bridge, trolley rides, alcatraz, wine country, golden gate > park, etc are all good options but better to devote a day too for each one > on a return trip sometime. Wine Country and Muir Woods are heavy traffic on > the summer weekends, you can spend a lot more time in a car and looking for > parking some times (especially at Muir Woods) than its worth if your time > is limited. > > Strolling through downtown/chinatown/north beach is non-committal and you > can move at your own pace. If you want to combine that with a ball game all > the power to you, AT&T park is one of the better venues in the country. > > https://goo.gl/maps/jZmxxcDXWAm > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
