Disheartened

[Ishmael]

Originally Posted by Tchocky

Drive the 1, it's magical.

We did it Frisco->LA

Highway 1 is great. But why fly halfway around the world just to drive 250 miles over windy dangerous roads. Stay in S.F., get a hotel in Fisherman's Wharf, the Travelodge on the Wharf is centrally located to the wharf & Pier 39, & buy an all-day pass on the cable cars. From the Wharf, you can take a short walk to the Hyde St. Turntable, have an Irish Coffee across the street at the Buena Vista Cafe by Ghirardelli Square(best chocolate in the world there) and hop the car over towards Powell. Once the car turns onto Powell St., you can get off & walk two blocks downhill to Grant Ave. & Chinatown. Or you can catch the California St. car & ride it to Van Ness to Tommy's Joint or the Hard Rock Cafe. I recommend Tommy's Joint as an old SF landmark. You can also ride the Mason St. line down through North Beach, the Italian section of town. I recommend Little Joe's on Broadway, The North Beach Cafe on Vallejo or Restorante Buca Giovanni in ascending price order. Another place is Tomasso's Pizzeria, Francis Ford Coppola has been seen to frequent there.

SF is a small city with a good public transit system. BART also serves the greater Bay Area & can be taken from the airport to downtown SF. Most of the major tourist attractions are within walking or cable car distance from the Wharf so driving is not really necessary to get around there Most of the other attractions like the Park are accessible by bus or Streetcar. Rather than driving to LA(about 350 miles or 12 hours on hwy 1). Most hotels offer excursions to the Napa Valley & there is a ferry to Vallejo that links to those. There is also the USS Pampanito, but she may not be out of dry dock by the time you get there. Also chck out the Jeremiah O'Brien at fort Mason, The Maritime museum and lots more.

You can even get a tattoo from Lyle Tuttle's on Columbus Ave. where Janis Joplin got her tattoo. My wife got one there on my birthday one year & his female asst. was working. There were also 4 German au-pair girls getting tribal marks. After about 1/2 hour I realized that I had been in tattoo parlors all over the world & it was the first time in my life where I was the only Guy in the tattoo parlor; and I wasn't getting a tattoo.

On the other hand, if you're only interested in giving your blushing bride honeymoon cystitis in a romantic setting, try this place. It's the East Brothers Light Station B&B built on a rock about 1/2 mile from Richmond in the Raccoon Straits north of San Francisco.

http://www.ebls.org/

If you surf, there's always this place, about 30 miles south of SF on the Peninsula coast near Half Moon Bay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mavericks_%28location%29

[joea]

Good news Kaptain

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

We met online

Been there my friend. Met a girl who lived in Australia once. :p


Grats on getting over to her though.

[baggygreen]

glad its workin out well for ya KP

[dean_acheson]

Such is the price of love!

[P_Funk]

I met this girl once that was apprehensive about dating me since I lived 40 minutes away by bus.

I think I should show her this thread.:rotfl:

[geetrue]

Why don't ya'll meet in the middle ... ?

Lets see now, one of you lives in England and one of you lives in Atlanta, right?

Bermuda is nice this time of year :rotfl:

[azn_132]

Originally Posted by Camaero

If you like smelly stinky cities then san fran is the place to go. Nah, it is ok but it's not for me. If you like scenic places then flying into San Luis Obispo and taking a drive on the 1 up the coast of California is one of the prettiest things to see in the whole US. It is a winding and twisting road along the cliffs of California with the ocean on the other side. Anywhere on the central coast is beautiful. Of course stear clear from LA at all costs.


Anyway, glad you got it sorted Kap! Just remember my crate method if you run into trouble getting back.

Or go to Diego for the beaches in stuff or visit Napa and Central Valley, maybe to the Sierras is fine.