Another recommendo for SF walking or biking tour. Suggestions by dstein and Kurt are spot on. You will love the ferry ride from Oakland, and SF is truly a walkable town.
I'm one of the few (former) locals that still really digs riding across the GG bridge. If you rented a bike, you could do that, ride through Golden Gate park, part of the Marin Headlands, lunch in Sausalito...you will get all of the million-dollar views that way. If the Giants are playing at home, don't forget that visitors can view the playing field for free, from the waterfront side. You could soak up a little SF baseball atmosphere that way. Short ride from the Ferry Building. As much as it pains me, I would skip Riv. I think most first-time visitors find the warehouse a bit underwhelming (sacrilege!), and BBH is cool and all, but spend your time in SF. You will not regret it. Final thoughts: skip Alcatraz and Fishermans Wharf. Too many damn people. You will have the tailored experience you seek by getting off on your own. And definitely skip Muir Woods, Napa wine country, etc...way too much driving, and again, Bay Area traffic is the suk. More final thoughts...bring a warm layer and hat to SF. Sacramento will be somewhere around 100 degrees in July, while SF and environs can be in the upper 50s with a stiff wind and fog rolling in. No joke, you will be cold, especially if you are walking. On Monday, May 30, 2016 at 1:32:42 PM UTC-7, SeanMac wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I'm hoping for some advice for a trip that I will be taking in late July. > I will be spending a bit more than a week in Sacramento participating in a > seminar for teachers on the Transcontinental Railroad. The seminar ends on > a Friday evening, but I decided to extend my visit a bit so that I have a > day to play / explore before getting on a train to head home (to Buffalo, > NY) on Sunday morning. > > I'm a Midwestern boy - never having ventured west beyond St. Louis, > Missouri. It is possible that this will be the only time that I will ever > be in California, so I am looking for advice about what I should do on a > Saturday in late July. > > One option, of course, is to visit Riv headquarters in Walnut Creek. I > certainly am considering doing just that. I'd love comments regarding how > high this should be on my list of things to do (yes, I know that this list > is pretty biased). I've also thought about attending a Giants baseball > game, or simply walking around Fisherman's Wharf / Ghiradelli Square in > downtown San Francisco. A few friends have also suggested a visit to > Alcatraz. > > The only real constraint that I have is that I will need to rely on public > transportation to get from Sacramento to wherever I decide to go. I also > would love to be back in Sacramento before it gets too late on Saturday so > that I can make my train home on Sunday morning. > > Thanks for your suggestions. Please respond off list to : > sean...@gmail.com <javascript:> > > Sean > -- 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.
