{"id":1646,"date":"2016-04-06T08:34:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2016-04-06T08:34:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T15:34:17","slug":"a-trip-to-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/06\/a-trip-to-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"A Trip To San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered in 1776, founded in 1860, and rebuilt from the ashes up in 1906, San Francisco is a city that boasts 50 hills, 6 islands, 2 earthquake faults, and well over a million people in the greater metropolitan area. And even though it\u2019s the second most densely populated city in America, there\u2019s plenty of room for visitors. Thinking about a trip to \u201cThe Paris of the West,\u201d the city where Al Capone died, where The Gap (inc) keeps its home office, where the Giants baseball team are ritualistically handed the World Series every year? If so, here are a few tips to help you get the most out of \u201cThe City That Knows How.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be careful you don\u2019t confuse Fisherman\u2019s Wharf, with \u201cFlasherman Warf\u201d, a dude in the Tenderloin dressed like a half naked Klingon from Star Trek: The Next Generation.<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re going to Alcatraz, get your tickets early. If you\u2019re not going, it doesn\u2019t matter when you get your tickets.<\/li>\n<li>The San Francisco National Cemetery is very popular\u2014people are dying to get in there. (Get it?)<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s a zoo in San Francisco. If you\u2019ve never been to a zoo before, than you haven\u2019t been to this one either.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t bother bringing an issue of TV Guide on the Cable Cars \u2018cause they\u2019re not that kind of cable.<\/li>\n<li>Lombard street. Crooked. Lumbar support, so your back doesn\u2019t get crooked. This joke still under construction.<\/li>\n<li>The Mission district has good burritos. They\u2019re called \u201cMissionary Style\u201d burritos because even though they\u2019re not exciting, they get the job done. Heyo!<\/li>\n<li>Facts: Golden Gate Park is neither golden, has gates, or any good places to put your car.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Painted Ladies\u201d is NOT a transvestite review, but an area with bunch of houses painted with more than two colors. I know, massively disappointing, right?<\/li>\n<li>Transamerica Pyramid, Coit Tower, Grace Cathedral, Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, SF Ferry Building, Golden Gate Bridge: you can buy postcards for these EVERYWHERE.<\/li>\n<li>Chinatown allegedly has some very nice restaurants, but none of them are Panda Express, so I don\u2019t know.<\/li>\n<li>Haight-Ashbury is where LSD was invented, but I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s worth the \u201ctrip.\u201d (Mwaah-mwaaa\u2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes, a visit to \u201cFrisco\u201d should be on everyone\u2019s bucket list. And when you\u2019re here, be sure to call it \u201cFrisco.\u201d The locals love it when visitors say that. And when they ask for Rice-A-Roni. And when they complain about the cold and the fog and the traffic and your sore aching feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered in 1776, founded in 1860, and rebuilt from the ashes up in 1906, San Francisco is a city that boasts 50 hills, 6 islands, 2 earthquake faults, and well over a million people in the greater metropolitan area. And even though it\u2019s the second most densely populated city in America, there\u2019s plenty of room &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/06\/a-trip-to-san-francisco\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Trip To San Francisco&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-qy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}