By Bill Stermer
Tony Bennett left his heart here, the car chase scene from Bullit was filmed here, and from the TransAmerica pyramid to the Victorian homes in Alamo Square and everywhere in between, the lure of San Francisco is compelling.
There's a lot here that you will find nowhere else in the United States, or the world, for that matter. And it is all packed into a city which is surprisingly small.
Considered the most European of American cities, San Francisco is an eclectic mix of visions and dreams. Here is the soaring beauty of the Golden Gate Bridge, and below it is the hopelessness of the former prison at Alcatraz.
Golden Gate Park and the Haight-Ashbury District were scenes of protests, love-ins, clashes with police and all that was right — and eventually wrong, apparently — with the peace/love movement.
A vibrant, eclectic and artistic city, with its ever-changing weather, San Francisco also labors under the memory of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that occurred as a World Series game was about to start, and the threat of another . . . someday.
Come for the food, the cozy little neighborhoods, the Old World charm and that wonderful sweep of the Bay, but whatever you do, don’t refer to it as “San Fran” within earshot of a local. HOW DO I START PLANNING A ROAD TRIP
TO SAN FRANCISCO?
Whether you are flying or driving to San Francisco, California, our journey planning tool can help you lay out your complete trip, provide maps and point-to-point driving directions to San Francisco.
Click on HOME to begin planning your road trip to San Francisco, including places to stay in and around San Francisco, places to eat in San Francisco, places to shop, places to go, things to do in San Francisco and things that you might need along the way. Or check out the suggestions under Adopt-a-Trip™
To get started, you can put in your home address as your STARTING POINT for your trip to San Francisco, California, and you can go to the WHERE tab and enter the address, airport code or city or region where you want to go to. If you need ideas and don’t know where you want to go, start with letting us know WHO and WHY you are traveling and WHAT you like to do and HOW you want to get there. Unlike other travel planning sites, you don’t have to know WHEN you are traveling to San Francisco, but you can just tell us the number of days you want to be away or what season you prefer to travel to San Francisco.
RoadEscapes.com is a planning tool that can be used for trips around town in your home town, weekend jaunts to San Francisco, California, road trips and vacations to San Francisco or California. So if you need driving directions to San Francisco or a map of San Francisco, or want to know what restaurants, hotels or stores in San Francisco are close to a particular point of interest, use our SEARCH NEARBY function as you add additional points of interest in and around San Francisco to your Trip Plan.
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Have fun and enjoy your trip to San Francisco!
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