if you're wandering GGPark, take along a picnic lunch & take your time to walk as much as you can. the park is beautiful. i don't know if the buffalo are still there...
when you get tired, make your way to the Fulton side of the park and take a buss toward Ocean Beach. if you get off at about 44-45th & Fulton, you'll be able to walk into the park and over to Queen Wilhelmina's windmill -- beautiful little spot & pretty gardens. my husband & i were married there some 18 years ago. about a block further on, you'll find Ocean Beach, where you will be able to wade a little (don't go out too far; the riptides are *fierce*) and listen to the seals at Seal Rock.
wherever you go in SF, make sure that you take along a sweatshirt -- it always pays to dress in layers in SF b/c, depending on where you are in the city, it can be quite sunny and hot or very foggy and cold. and it can change from one to the other very quickly. that's why so many people in SF carry backpacks -- it gives them a place to stash the rest of the wardrobe.
when you're on Haight street, go down toward Masonic -- between Ashbury and Masonic, really, and look for Discount Fabrics -- a good deal of Northern Renfaire clothing has had its genesis there, along with some really fabulous stage & party & parade costumes and outfits. unusual fabrics, some really good prices -- you never can tell what you'll find there.
if you have a chance to get downtown and have a yen for a bead store, somwhere around -- i think it's 10th or 9th and Minna (Minna being little more than an alley between major streets), there's General Bead -- again, you can't always predict what you'll find, but generally great prices are the rule.
then again, over on Gough and Linden (Linden being, again, little more than an alley-sized street), you'll find Dark Garden -- great place for custom corsets & other clothing. the designer, Autumn Adamme-Carey, got her start in the RenFaire world. most of Dark Garden's clothing is custom, but she does carry some of her own stock as well as some products from other designers in her store. it's worth going into the store anyway, just for the fabulous wall murals.
have lots of fun -- i wish i had the time to drive down & enjoy some fresh Fisherman's Wharf crab and sourdough!
san francisco
when you get tired, make your way to the Fulton side of the park and take a buss toward Ocean Beach. if you get off at about 44-45th & Fulton, you'll be able to walk into the park and over to Queen Wilhelmina's windmill -- beautiful little spot & pretty gardens. my husband & i were married there some 18 years ago. about a block further on, you'll find Ocean Beach, where you will be able to wade a little (don't go out too far; the riptides are *fierce*) and listen to the seals at Seal Rock.
wherever you go in SF, make sure that you take along a sweatshirt -- it always pays to dress in layers in SF b/c, depending on where you are in the city, it can be quite sunny and hot or very foggy and cold. and it can change from one to the other very quickly. that's why so many people in SF carry backpacks -- it gives them a place to stash the rest of the wardrobe.
when you're on Haight street, go down toward Masonic -- between Ashbury and Masonic, really, and look for Discount Fabrics -- a good deal of Northern Renfaire clothing has had its genesis there, along with some really fabulous stage & party & parade costumes and outfits. unusual fabrics, some really good prices -- you never can tell what you'll find there.
if you have a chance to get downtown and have a yen for a bead store, somwhere around -- i think it's 10th or 9th and Minna (Minna being little more than an alley between major streets), there's General Bead -- again, you can't always predict what you'll find, but generally great prices are the rule.
then again, over on Gough and Linden (Linden being, again, little more than an alley-sized street), you'll find Dark Garden -- great place for custom corsets & other clothing. the designer, Autumn Adamme-Carey, got her start in the RenFaire world. most of Dark Garden's clothing is custom, but she does carry some of her own stock as well as some products from other designers in her store. it's worth going into the store anyway, just for the fabulous wall murals.
have lots of fun -- i wish i had the time to drive down & enjoy some fresh Fisherman's Wharf crab and sourdough!
lea bob
formerly RPFN
fellow denizen of afr