I love the land's end cliff walk starting from here: https://goo.gl/maps/oUNxNPBDhWFhKUeM7. Accessible by bus. You can extend it by going down the coast, through Golden Gate Park and then end up at Haight St for food and lots of interesting stores. Not sure if that's considered touristy.
I still like visiting Chinatown when I get back that way. When I was a kid, dad always took me to the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, and I still stop there every time. Haven't lived in the Bay Area for almost 10 years now, though.
We thought it would only keep us entertained for a few hours and ended up staying all day. Most of the enjoyment was the surrealism (I can't even remember details of any rides) but that was a LOT of joy.
This was incredible writing. The voice reminded me a bit of David Foster Wallace. I think I’ll be making my way through these archives :)
And I’ll be sure to head to Huis ten Bosch next time I’m in the area. I think soaking in the echo of everything it is, was meant to be, and did not become, will be a real treat.
One of my biggest jaw dropping sighting was to see a "le petit prince" Park in the middle of nowhere in Hakone, as a French, from south France, I was damn surprised to see that such museum existed, I think I had seen an ads on the billboard when going to Hakone and was double surprised.
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Avoid downtown. Spend time exploring the Mission, the Castro, Japantiwn, the Richmond district, the sunset district.
Fire up Google maps and go and explore the orange areas scattered around the city.
For a more specific recommendation: start at Arsicault bakery and then head down Clement St from there.
This article about how the park came to be is my favourite piece of travel writing (it's why we went): https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/huis-ten-bosch-o...
How much of your enjoyment was based on the meta (its history, surrealism, copying the Dutch, etc.) and how much was it being genuinely fun?
And I’ll be sure to head to Huis ten Bosch next time I’m in the area. I think soaking in the echo of everything it is, was meant to be, and did not become, will be a real treat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_The_Little_Prince_...
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