Thread: San Francisco - Suggestions/Trip Report

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (29Palms @ Sep 14 2009, 09:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Yes, San Francisco is one of my favorites. We are do for a return trip there. Chinatown is great. Remember the GOLDEN DRAGON massacre back in the 1970&#39;s? It&#39;s still there. Very old city and unique. Fisherman&#39;s wharf with the seals hanging out at the pier is a neat thing to see. Great report Migflanker. Sounds like you had a nice trip minus the boat ride.[/b]

Got any recommendations for a restaurant in Chinatown? My friends raved about the place but I went there last time and where I ate was average at best

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Migflanker @ Sep 14 2009, 04:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

But I do have to admit, there is something about watching a city wake up. There&#39;s a breeze that says people and cars are coming, but for now, for right now.................you can cross the street against the light in the middle of the block and make it![/b]

Another fun thing to do is be out late and start heading home when everyone is heading in to work. The streets are quiet and just start building up and you can laugh at the suckers going to work when you are going home to bed.

I&#39;m getting a bit old for all nighters though....

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nick @ Sep 14 2009, 03:11 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Got any recommendations for a restaurant in Chinatown? My friends raved about the place but I went there last time and where I ate was average at best [/b]

Hopefully someone on the Board will be able to recommend a good restaurant. The place we went (a sales clerk recommendation) was alright, but definately nothing to write home about.


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Nick @ Sep 14 2009, 03:19 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

I&#39;m getting a bit old for all nighters though.... [/b]

I&#39;m with you Nick, I don&#39;t do all-nighters any more either; I&#39;ll leave that to Jumper and Spongebue.

More San Francisco adventures - Wine, Zombies and Lots Of Fun

One minute you’re hearing , “you’ll be fine, it’ll be fun, we’re only going to ride around the park” and the next someone is yelling something about momentum and you’re in a line of cyclists headed for the street and right into San Francisco traffic.
One good thing about bicycling, you can always put your foot down.
You gotta love “bike people“, maybe it’s the heat build up in those helmets that makes them crazy.

Napa Valley - spectacular scenery, vineyards and wines
Something I learned along the way- It’s fun comparison tasting.
Most of the wineries are along Hwy 29, the Silverado Trail, or the road connecting the two. We took Hwy 29, and visited wineries based on the curiosity factor - if the winery looked interesting from the road we stopped.
We visited 2.1 wineries, “.1” because we left one winery when they told us there was a $25 /person tour and tasting fee - seemed a little pricey to me, the other two were free.
After the wine tasting we stopped and had a great lunch at the Rutherford Grill - great steaks and “fall of the bone” ribs and there’s no corkage fee, so you can open that great bottle of wine you bought from just down the road.

Something unexpected-
We were cutting crossing Union Square when we ran smack into a horde of zombies. Yup, right there in the heart of downtown San Francisco a horde of zombies dancing to the music of Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
Talk about being caught off guard, if these mangy ghouls had been the first wave of the zombie apocalypse we would have been…… “toast”. Fortunately for us this group of the walking dead were part of a flash mob’s dance tribute to Michael Jackson.
I’ve got to tell you, no matter how many horror movies you’ve seen, you’re never actually prepared for a zombies outbreak in the middle of day.
At least we knew enough to be out of there before anyone called lunch.

One last thing, because San Francisco is a city with very steep hills bike riding can be “challenging”, and that’s a quote from someone that finished the El Tour De Tucson bike ride - twice. The steep hills also make it important to curb your wheels when parking …..very, very, important -uh-oh we’re moving

Ah the memories of Napa... maybe I will make a brief stop there in Nov to visit Napa again with the gf, thanks Mig!

Originally Posted by Nick

Ah the memories of Napa...

This should bring back a memory or two.
Definately stop at Rutherford's Grill, great ribs.

little more specific--price range and location?