Lexie's San Francisco Power Tour

On the terrace with Alcatraz in the background.

As noted in an earlier post, Lexie was unimpressed with her previous visit to San Francisco. I blame myself. To right this wrong, I decided to take her on my internationally renown San Francisco Power Tour.

Where else to start but the SF tourist mecca...

Fisherman's Wharf

Lombard "Crookedest" Street

City Hall

No trip to San Francisco is complete without a visit to the Castro District...

In the Castro

I wanted Lexie to stand where we could see the guy behind her head. She refused, so...

... I had to take a picture of "Epic Proud Guy" by himself.

Twin Peaks Panorama (click to enlarge)

Then Lexie's first Pacific Ocean experience...

So I say "Since this is your first time at the Pacific, Would you like a picture wading in the Ocean?"

The idea was just to get her feet a little wet.

The ocean had other ideas.

Lexie beats a hasty retreat.

Golden Gate Park with dry feet.

Finally - Fort Point and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Or at least what the fog would let us see of it.

From first picture to last in this series - two hours thirty minutes flat.

San Francisco Power Tour with Wes and Susan

Bay Bridge, Embarcadero and Klaus

Tadich Grill for lunch

Haight Ashbury for medicinal supplies

The Castro & the wrong Twin Peaks (and no - I don't understand whether Wes is adopting a defensive or invitational posture).

The right Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks Panorama (click to enlarge)

Milan Trolley on the "F" Line

Lombard "crookedest" Street

Golden Gate Bridge

Tour completed inside three hours (A little long - we got lost in the Haight).

SF Power Tour underway

Friends (and fellow travelers) Wes and Susan are in town. I am taking them on my patented power tour. Will update with higher quality pics later.

-- Sent from my Palm Prē

UPDATE: The Tour is linked here

Dinner in North Beach

At Rose Pistola on Columbus. We had the seafood grill. I was disappointed in the food at the restaurant in my one previous visit a few years ago, but this was excellent. I'll be back.

Sundowners on the terrace

Enjoying the view before heading down the hill to North Beach for dinner. Shaken not stirred.

At the top of Lombard st.

With alcatraz and cable car tracks in the backgroound.

Hal's power tour continues

Twin Peaks overlook

Hal's SF power tour underway

In a convertiible of course.

Cousin Hal is in town

He asked me to pick him up in the Castro. I don't know what he was doing there.

Roy's San Francisco Power Tour

On the terrace overlooking Fisherman's Wharf and Alcatraz

In the future, the SF Power Tour becomes a regular feature of this blog and an easy entertainment for visiting guests. As such, I thought I should reprise the first example - this post-dated retrospective dates from 2005, when high school senior Roy had a short window of opportunity before flying home. His debate team had completed their competition across the bay, when we tacked on a four hour tour (including pick-up and drop off in Berkeley)...

Educational opportunity in North Beach

Chinatown

Twin Peaks Panorama (click to enlarge)

In the Castro

Haight Ashbury


Golden Gate Park with new friend


Finally, at the Pacific Ocean...

Uncle Mike completes the first Power Tour