One of my loyal readers reported being in San Francisco for a few days and having a wonderful time. Great, but I feel some responsibility to play the host role.
Back in the early 1970s I made a major difference
in the way the world perceived San Francisco. I told the story in an
earlier blog how I used my position as business manager of a church to overturn the bus tour monopoly. At
the time the only tour business in San Francisco was on strike. I was able to
explode the local tour business forever more.
I now recommend one of the most interesting off-shoots of my tour creation, the walking tours of San Francisco. I trained more than a dozen young people and several dozen tour bus guides in the key parts of San Francisco and several spun-off into the walking guide business within a year. Sign-up for one of the dozens of walking tours, any one, they are all great.
San Francisco is best understood at the walking levels. I have never stopped walking the City and I know many people who come here for weeks and walk every day. I walk in every City I go to, nearly every day.
This walking option is one of the great attributes of most cities, but not all.
Footnote on painted ladies (houses): the hippies created the first painted ladies and I was the first to promote a photo of them with the promotional postcard used for the Glide Tours.