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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; Wed–Sun 10 AM–5 PM, closed Mon–Tue. Fits Sun Sep 20 only
- 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
Events (date-fixed)
- Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson — Sun Sep 20, 6:30 PM — Toyota Pavilion at Concord (East Bay, ~1 hr by car). Freaks on Parade tour finale with The Hu and Orgy. Optional, just for fun. Tickets