Bay Area Mags!!!!

Hey bay area mags. I'm on vacation! I'm up in MarinCo visiting family. I forgot how much I love SF. I've been in CO too long. The bay area rocks! I just don't know what to do in it and all that. I can make it into the city or wherever public transportation goes. Suggestions? During the week my cousins are in school and my family at work. If anyone wants to meet up during the week I'm down to meet some west coast mags!

PS. I'm sorry that I didn't hang out with any BC mags on my Canada leg. I was on the tiny island of Quadra... not an easy place to get to/from.

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Originally Posted by Summit

I love SF. I've been in CO too long. The bay area rocks!

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We pretty much always knew that you were gat. Glad you're having the time of your life!! :fmicon:

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Originally Posted by BlurredElevens

We pretty much always knew that you were gat. Glad you're having the time of your life!! :fmicon:

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What? I can't hear you over the gat pride rally I'm leading.

Don't buy an SF sweatshirt. The beaches in Marin are really amazing - Stinson, up by Bolinas, etc. The embarcadero is always nice - if you're here on a Saturday theres a market with really good food at the ferry building (to eat as well as to buy). possibly unfeasible, but you could rent a mtbike and ride around marin (?). Dunno if you sail, but you're in one of the world's top places to sail in one of the best months for it (it was blowing like stink today and the windsurfers were eating it up out by chrissy field). have fun while you're here

....just got back from running the Marina Green and through Crissy Field....one bitch of a headwind this evening.

Hike up/down the dipsea trail on Mt. Tam,
Get your rental car stolen in the Mission,
Go to a "booth" on Polk and O'Farrell,
SFMOMA,
Metreon,
Cum shop with SuPu, Greydon Clark, and myself in the Cathstro,
Walk the GG Bridge,
Go see one of your fav bands (at least one will be playing when you're here)
Drive to Alpine or Squaw,
Go to Sausalito, Tiburon,
Drink Peets Coffee,
....and do all that while sitting in traffic :)

Looks like I'll have Wednesday and maybe Friday off if you guys want to hang out during the day. I did have to ask what the Castro was :tdo13: :tongue:

Damn, family in Marin and spending time on Quadra... could easily be me!

Go hiking around in the Marin Headlands. Bring a windbreaker and some binocs. Then go surfing at Cronkhite, Stinson, Bolinas, RCA, or somewhere. Bouldering at Turtle Rock (these footholds are Schist!!) and Split Rock in Tiburon.

I second the suggestion of hiking the Dipsea trail, near Stinson beach. Stay away from the Matt Davis trail, it's dry and boring. If you want to make a day out of it, go to the "Dipsea restaurant" in the morning for some FKN amazing pancakes. It's in Mill Valley before you get to Stinson.
Also, you HAVE to hit up House of Nan King(sp?) near Columbus for dinner. Family owned chinese restaurant, you go in(after waiting in line), and tell them to bring you "whats good"<-- The place is incredible.
If you happen to luck out and get a Mt. Bike, go to Camp Tamarancho and poach some single track from the Boy Scouts :the_finge

I second making sure that you don't buy a San Francisco sweatshirt. You can always tell the tourists who show up in SF thinking that it actually gets warm there. The perfect solution to this mistaken belief is, of course, the SF sweatshirt. The sight hordes of sweatshirt-clad tourists waiting for the cable car is amusing, though.

Thanks for the tips guys!

It's OK. I came prepared with my TGR sweatshirt that SheRa got me (very nice. I've worn it here and in CA with good need)! :)

So I talked my Aunt into the Dipsea trail tomorrow but we only have limited time so we were thinking of going in from the Muir Woods parking area up to and maybe a little past Cardiac Hill. Is that where the best views are on the trial?

We might go for a drive up the ridge on Tam for views too if the fog doesn't hit.

(so far I've been around little Italy, up that towers, around the new ferry building, to Fog City, Yankee Pier, and to Muir Beach) I think I was last in SF 9 years ago (I'm in W Corte Madera now)!!!

go visit my old HS... it's just down the street from you. If you've got rock shoes and are into that sort of thing, then aside from my previous suggestions of Turtle and Split there is kickass bouldering on the south edge of Stinson beach...just go at low tide and be prepared to land in soft sand. See a show at Sweetwater in Mill Valley.

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Originally Posted by NorCalPWDR

Stay away from the Matt Davis trail, he's dry and boring.

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I have nothing to say, but that is some funny shit.

BobMc

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Originally Posted by hop

go visit my old HS... it's just down the street from you. If you've got rock shoes and are into that sort of thing, then aside from my previous suggestions of Turtle and Split there is kickass bouldering on the south edge of Stinson beach...just go at low tide and be prepared to land in soft sand. See a show at Sweetwater in Mill Valley.

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No rock shoes unfortunately. Just Tevas and hiking boots. What HS? My cousin is probably going there now
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Hmmmmm.....

Lotsa posts, but not one offer to get together for a beer? Tres disappointing, thailorth.

check out the event on Thurs night

http://www.donovansf.com

some of his regular crowd...the Euro scene

http://www.donovansf.com/PastPartyPi...k-05-12-05.htm

I've just put my turntables for sale on Ebay.....

http://www.donovansf.com/PartyPics/F...8-Donovan1.jpg

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Hmmmmm.....

Lotsa posts, but not one offer to get together for a beer? Tres disappointing, thailorth.

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Friday, a group of us are blocking traffic in opposition to the war in Iraq. If you hold my hand while lying in the intersection of Market and 3rd I’ll buy you a beer at the Eagle Tavern.

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Originally Posted by Summit

No rock shoes unfortunately. Just Tevas and hiking boots. What HS? My cousin is probably going there now
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That'd be Redwood HS.
Robin Williams and Gabrielle Carteris are two notable graduates.

Redwood is where she goes! She's a Junior there.

I hiked part of Tamalpais Dipsea trail on your suggestions. It was very nice. We were short on time so we just did a five mile hike from Muir Woods to past Cardiac Hill. Didn't have time for a full ten mile hike plus the beach would have been cold today. The redwoods and mossed over lush forest were quite nice even in the fog. It cleared up enough for a nice view from Cardiac Hill.

We did drive the rest of the Panoramic and Pantoll ontop of Tamalpais but it started to rain so we drove down to Rt 1 for a great drive back south. Very pretty. Good advice! Thanks guys!

Greydon... I can't hold your hand... I just don't think you're the right guy for me :biggrin: but I'll take you up on a beer!

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I've just put my turntables for sale on Ebay.....

http://www.donovansf.com/PartyPics/F...8-Donovan1.jpg

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are you sure that's not Slim???????

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are you sure that's not Slim???????

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btw, the guys behind TheOnion.com are in town and having a party tomorrow night

for you political people, it might be a fun, irreverent event

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...DG0VCP4BG1.DTL

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Originally Posted by Greydon Clark

Friday, a group of us are blocking traffic in opposition to the war in Iraq. If you hold my hand while lying in the intersection of Market and 3rd I’ll buy you a beer at the Eagle Tavern.

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Wear the chaps and you're ON! Cosmos and Apple Martinis on me! (Anyone have a nice cleanser they can recommend?)

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Originally Posted by Tippster

Wear the chaps and you're ON! Cosmos and Apple Martinis on me! (Anyone have a nice cleanser they can recommend?)

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Chaps would definitely be appropriate at the Eagle. Things are super hectic for me this week (Slim, I'm note cool, just a procrastinator), but if anyone else rallies the masses--at a more hetero bar than the Eagle--I’ll try to make an appearance.

Today was sleezy camera vendors, losing cell phone on the bus, Exploritorium, walking all across the North Shore, Ghiradelli Square, sushi, and Fishermans Warf. Tomorrow: Sonoma Wine Country. Friday I'm thinkin SFMOMA and that Chinese resturaunt NorCal reccomended....

... unless someone wants to meet up and hang out Friday during the day!

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Originally Posted by Greydon Clark

Chaps would definitely be appropriate at the Eagle. Things are super hectic for me this week (Slim, I'm note cool, just a procrastinator), but if anyone else rallies the masses--at a more hetero bar than the Eagle--I’ll try to make an appearance.

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Thith ith not too far from the Cathtro. We can hit thith up before we go to the Men's Room and Moby Dick.

I'll be cumming, oopsie, I mean going here tonight.

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Most of the food in Chinatown sucks. House of Nanking is the best place to eat in that area, but for the real SF food experience, you have to go to Tu Lan at 6th and Market. Amazing Vietnamese food in the crummiest hole of a diner you can imagine. (Walk down Market unless you like porn and crazy drunks.)

Gatip Thai, on Lombard just before you bend right to go to the Golden Gate Bridge, is an excellent stop if you're heading back to Marin. Get the drunken duck and thank me later.

The Clement Street strip (between Arguello and Presidio) is good fun during the day: this is where the real Asian people eat and buy stuff, as opposed to Chinatown, which is for the tourists.

If you are a serious foodie, anywhere between 16th and 24th on Valencia will do you fine. Go two blocks over to Mission for all the taquerias you can handle (I like Taqueria San Jose, but they're all good). Go another block to Capp for street blowjobs.