5 Hour Entertaining Tour of San Francisco

Itinerary
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Stop At: Lombard Street, San Francisco, CA 94109

We can start the day with "The Crookedest Street in the World" and figure out what else we want to do from there.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Golden Gate Bridge, US-101, San Francisco, CA 94129

We can walk to the middle and shake the bridge by wiggling the Cables and/or drive to the top of the hill behind the Golden Gate and get some great pictures.

Duration: 1 hour

Pass By: Painted Ladies, Alamo Square, Steiner and Hayes Sts., San Francisco, CA

Drive through the prettiest parts of San Francisco.

Stop At: Cliff House, 1090 Point Lobos Ave, San Francisco, CA 94121-1496

We can eat at a good cafe next to the Cliff House and check out the ruins of a ritzy playground.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Golden Gate Park, 501 Stanyan St, San Francisco, CA 94117-1898

We can play Disc Golf or walk through the Botanical Gardens or go to one of the Museums or just drive through.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: 501 Twin Peaks Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94114

Great City views. We will come back at nighttime too.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Muir Beach, CA 94965

Check out the beach (Beware: Nude beach is past the rocks) drive through the Muir Woods (Redwood trees)

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Napa Valley Wine Country Tours, 4408 Morse Ct, Napa, CA 94558-1730

We will stop at as many times as you want. (I have puke bags just in case)

Duration: 11 hours

Stop At: Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA

Best Gelato in Town

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Fisherman's Wharf, Jefferson Street Between Hyde and Powell Streets, San Francisco, CA 94133

Shop or Eat at Fisherman's Wharf

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Coit Tower, 1 Telegraph Hill Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94133-3106

Coit Tower, a slender white concrete column rising from the top of Telegraph Hill, has been an emblem of San Francisco’s skyline since its completion in 1933, a welcoming beacon to visitors and residents alike. Its observation deck, reached by elevator (tickets can be purchased in the gift shop), provides 360-degree views of the city and bay, including the Golden Gate and Bay bridges.

The simple fluted tower is named for Lillie Hitchcock Coit, a wealthy eccentric and patron of the city’s firefighters. Coit died in 1929, leaving a substantial bequest “for the purpose of adding to the beauty of the city I have always loved.” The funds were used to build both the tower and a monument to Coit’s beloved volunteer firefighters, in nearby Washington Square. The tower was designed by the firm of Arthur Brown, Jr., architect of San Francisco’s City Hall. Contrary to popular belief, Coit Tower was not designed to resemble a firehose nozzle.

The murals inside the tower’s base were painted in 1934 by a group of artists employed by the Public Works of Art Project, a precursor to the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and depict life in California during the Depression. When violence broke out during the 1934 longshoremen’s strike, controversy over the radical content in some of the panels became quite heated. Some of the most controversial elements were painted over, and the tower was padlocked for several months before the frescoes were finally opened to the public in the fall of 1934.

Telegraph Hill takes its name from a semaphore telegraph erected on its summit in 1850 to alert residents to the arrival of ships. Pioneer Park, which surrounds Coit Tower, was established in 1876 on the former site of the telegraph station. As you wander the trails that wind around the tower and down the hill, you may hear the raucous chatter of the neighborhood’s most famous (and noisiest) residents, the flock of parrots featured in the 2005 film “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.”

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Sausalito Boardwalk, Sausalito Yacht Harbor, Sausalito, CA 94965

Eat and/or Shop

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Chinatown, Grant Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94108

Eat and/or Shop

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Ghirardelli Square, 900 N Point St At Polk Street, San Francisco, CA 94109-1192

Ice Cream and Chocolate!

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market, Embarcadero & Green Street Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA 94102

Eat and/or Shop

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, CA

You get me and my nice Expedition to take you anywhere you want to go.

Duration: 11 hours

Pass By: Muir Woods National Monument, 1 Muir Woods Rd, Mill Valley, CA 94941-4205

See Giant Redwoods

Stop At: Winchester Mystery House, 525 S Winchester Blvd North San Jose, San Jose, CA 95128-2588

Site seeing

Duration: 2 hours