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- One file per day under days/; timeline table reduced to date, weekday, place - Sep 19–20: KT & VT Uber to Airbnb, rest day; LK & MS drive rental to Airbnb - Sep 21: Silicon Valley morning, optional Twin Peaks / Painted Ladies / Lands End, Battery Spencer at sunset - LK Hertz LAX rental marked not available for planning; LA / San Diego hotels cancelled - sf_sights: add Silicon Valley and Mission / Castro, skip Computer History Museum Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CWLR7htYGAB9i89P8jCCLn
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San Francisco — Places to See
Candidate menu of sights. The chosen, day-by-day version lives in days/ (Sep 20–21).
Getting around: car for the Marin side (no transit there); BART + cable cars / F-line streetcar for the downtown core (parking is brutal). Base is Daly City, ~20–30 min south.
Marin side (car only)
- Marin Headlands / Battery Spencer — the classic Golden Gate Bridge panorama; best at sunset, stay for blue hour. Tiny lot
North Waterfront
- Golden Gate Bridge — Welcome Center + Fort Point underneath
- Lombard Street — the crooked block
- Fisherman's Wharf / Pier 39 — sea lions
- Ghirardelli Square — chocolate + waterfront dining
- Coit Tower — city + bay views from Telegraph Hill
- Alcatraz — ferry from Pier 33, ~2.5–3 hrs round trip. Book weeks ahead — sells out
Downtown / Central
- Ferry Building — marketplace, food. Farmers market Tue/Sat — misses our Sun/Mon
- Cable cars — California St or Powell lines
- Union Square — shopping core
- Chinatown — Dragon Gate, largest outside Asia
- North Beach — Little Italy, cafés
West / Parks
- Alamo Square — the Painted Ladies
- Golden Gate Park — de Young Museum, Japanese Tea Garden. de Young closed Mondays
- Lands End — coastal trail, Sutro Baths ruins
- Twin Peaks — panoramic city viewpoint
- Ocean Beach — Pacific coast, sunsets
Silicon Valley (car, ~45 min south)
- Apple Park Visitor Center — Cupertino; rooftop view of the ring, AR model, store. Campus itself is closed to the public
- Google Visitor Experience — Mountain View; store, café, Android statues
Computer History Museum— Mountain View; closed Mon–Tue, doesn't fit our car day. ❌ Skipped- Stanford campus — Palo Alto; Hoover Tower view
Mission / Castro
- Mission District — murals (Clarion Alley, Balmy Alley), Dolores Park, best burritos in the city
- Castro — historic gay neighbourhood, Castro Theatre