Much larger and more genuine than DC's Chinatown. Even the touristy part.
Nob Hill:
A couple of San Franciscans said I should see the cathedral on Nob Hill. I was not impressed. It's much smaller and constructed of cheaper materials than the DC cathedrals.
This however (in North Beach I think), we do not have in DC. I'm a little jealous.
More from North Beach:
The green one looks like a cool building. Wish I had gotten a better picture of it. This is as close as I got.
This reminds me of Philadelphia:
Walking up Telegraph Hill:
Does every tourist take a picture of one of these signs?
Coit Tower. I went up. That will be part three.
Friggin' steep hill.
Stopped briefly in the Haight for Girlfriend to shop. Looked interesting, but we weren't there very long. And it was rainy and dark.
The Mission District:
We have gotten the grocery store chains in DC to learn how to build stores that greet the street and have no surface parking, but we still haven't gotten them to understand the value of facing the sidewalk with produce rather than blank brick walls. Good on SF.
This grocery store (on the left) wasn't so great:
I assume this is the mission whence the district takes its name?
The Tenderloin.
I was surprised to find such a relatively seedy neighborhood so close to Union Square. That having been said, it was probably my favorite neighborhood in the city. I'm jealous of the density. DC's densest neighborhoods still have a lot of rowhouses mixed in with the apartments. My uneducated guess is this is probably the densest neighborhood in the country outside New York. Can anyone corroborate?
Another produce-stand grocery store? Curse you, San Francisco! They're all over!
What the eff is this thing?
We took the N-Judah through the Sunset to the Pacific Ocean. Neither Girlfriend nor I had been to it before, and we wanted to touch it.
It was stormy and cold.
We went in anyway.
Girlfriend didn't handle it as well as I did.
Luckily we thought to bring fresh socks and footwarmers. All was OK in the end.
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