I started off the day with a strawberry danish at Caffè Trieste in North Beach. (It can’t always be a chocolate croissant!)
San Francisco 2016, Day 2, Part 1
North Beach (Part 1), Russian Hill, and Washington Square
I took a lovely walk through Chinatown on the way to North Beach in the morning. The borders between the 2 neighborhoods are getting very blurry. [Read more…]
Call Me “Mr. Ambassador”!
The year I became an Ambassador. A Castro Ambassador. What does that mean? It means that from May to October, about once a week, you could find me in San Francisco’s Castro District helping out visitors to the neighborhood. Armed with maps and brochures, I set up shop at the top of the stairs above the Castro station on San Francisco’s Muni system. By far, most of the [Read more…]
San Francisco 2016, Day 1, Part 2
Barbary Coast Trail–Embarcadero – Fisherman’s Wharf to Nob Hill
I had seen so much already on my 1st day of sightseeing in San Francisco. And I still had so much more to see! [Read more…]
San Francisco 2016 Food Diary, Day 1
San Francisco has a reputation as a great food city. But it’s not like I’m going out for gourmet meals every night. And like any place, eating out can be a hit-or-miss proposition. I can definitely say that I had a good mix of eating over the 2016 sightseeing season in San Francisco.
I started off with a very filling breakfast. Sears Fine Food is a Union Square institution. Their most famous dish is their Swedish pancakes. It may look like they are 6 of them in the picture, but [Read more…]