Obvious ones I assume you did:
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GG Bridge
Cable Cars
Pier/Wharf
Exploratorium
Alcatraz
Lombard street
Coit Tower
Less obvious:
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Fort Point UNDERNEATH the GG bridge. Cool for a short visit. You’ll freeze your cannonballs off !
Rent a kayak in Sausalito and paddle around.
Farmers market in the old ferry building.
Cable Car Museum
Go to the top of a tall buildng like Bank of America on Calif. street – have a $20 drink or the Transamerica building or the Fairmount and look around.
Drive to the top of Twin Peaks and look around.
They feed the lions at the SF zoo every day and the lions usually roar after eating. Totally awesome. You haven’t lived until you look into the eyes of a male lion as it roars. Worth seeing.
Go see a Golden State Warriors game, or Berkeley or Stanford hoops game.
Check ticketmaster and stub hub to see if any sports/shows/plays/musicians are in town.
It’s always fun to see if you can catch air in a rental car driving on those SF streets.
Here’s one nobody knows:
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Go to Lombard street and drive down it. It’s kind of a yawner. Then, head back up the hill, go a couple blocks south ( I think ) and drive down Filbert street, parallel to Lombard. It is basically as steep as lombard, but without the switchbacks. It is friggin steep. As your car’s tires hit the edge where flat street turns to a slope, you can’t see the road past your hood ! Scary. I did this with the kids and they made me go back about 5 times. Sooooo much better than Lombard.
My suggestion:
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Go to the Jelly Belly factory in Farfield. It is a bit of a drive but worth it. Spend the money and take the University tour. i think you have to book it online. May be too late. call and beg if you have to. We did the JB University tour and got to eat fresh JBs out of the machines as the were being made. A bit of a drive but totally worth it. Tour JB factory and budweiser brewery practically next door. Also, I think there is an Olive-oil tasting nearby to make it a trifecta of tasting – free beer, jelly beans and olive oil.
Too bad CDMA Eng is not online tonight. he knows lots of good eateries in SF.
Ask our mutual friend – lets call him “Joe” who used to live there.
