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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
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*Candidate menu of sights. The chosen, day-by-day version lives in [`days/`](days/) (Sep 20–21).*
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> **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.
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## Marin side (car only)
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- **Marin Headlands / Battery Spencer** — the classic Golden Gate Bridge panorama; best at sunset, stay for blue hour. Tiny lot
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## North Waterfront
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- **Golden Gate Bridge** — Welcome Center + Fort Point underneath
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- **Lombard Street** — the crooked block
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- **Fisherman's Wharf / Pier 39** — sea lions
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- **Ghirardelli Square** — chocolate + waterfront dining
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- **Coit Tower** — city + bay views from Telegraph Hill
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- **Alcatraz** — ferry from Pier 33, ~2.5–3 hrs round trip. *Book weeks ahead — sells out*
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## Downtown / Central
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- **Ferry Building** — marketplace, food. *Farmers market Tue/Sat — misses our Sun/Mon*
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- **Cable cars** — California St or Powell lines
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- **Union Square** — shopping core
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- **Chinatown** — Dragon Gate, largest outside Asia
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- **North Beach** — Little Italy, cafés
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## West / Parks
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- **Alamo Square** — the Painted Ladies
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- **Golden Gate Park** — de Young Museum, Japanese Tea Garden. *de Young closed Mondays*
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- **Lands End** — coastal trail, Sutro Baths ruins
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- **Twin Peaks** — panoramic city viewpoint
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- **Ocean Beach** — Pacific coast, sunsets
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## Silicon Valley (car, ~45 min south)
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- **Apple Park Visitor Center** — Cupertino; rooftop view of the ring, AR model, store. Campus itself is closed to the public
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- **Google Visitor Experience** — Mountain View; store, café, Android statues
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- ~~**Computer History Museum**~~ — Mountain View; closed Mon–Tue, doesn't fit our car day. ❌ Skipped
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- **Stanford campus** — Palo Alto; Hoover Tower view
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## Mission / Castro
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- **Mission District** — murals (Clarion Alley, Balmy Alley), Dolores Park, best burritos in the city
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- **Castro** — historic gay neighbourhood, Castro Theatre
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