Modesto Tamez: San Francisco 101

The following represents the opinion of Modesto Tamez, not the Exploratorium or its funders.

 

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Running time: 40 minutes

Download Modesto's Best document (to accompany recording)

 

Other Links

Cheap Eats in San Francisco (from SF Chronicle)

Interactive visitor's map to SF

 

SF Muni and BART:

Rough timeline of recording:

0:00 Exploratorium and food
6:00 Tennessee Valley
8:00 Sausalito
9:35 North Beach (little Italy): eggplant and focaccia bread
10:50 Art Institute at Union and Columbus and Diego Riviera mural. Best place to view fireworks!
12:10 Fillmore Art Fair (July 1 weekend only)
14:20 Culture Gulch -- Hayes and Gough
15:00 Ferry Building and best wine bar, plenty of places to eat, and Thurs/Sat farmer's market
19:00 Ballpark
19:10 Monterey aquarium
20:20 Art Deco
21:00 Point Reyes
22:30 Castro -- shock and choc(olate)
24:50 Best restaurant block in SF: Pizza, Moroccan, Chez Papas, Chez Mamas
25:45 Alcatraz
26:20 Monthly pass for SF Muni (Closest place to buy passes: Marina Safeway. MUNI is only SF. BART is east bay.
26:50 Stern Grove - free concerts
27:40 SF symphony
28:20 Free opera in Dolores Park
<<- end of Modesto's Best sheet ->>
28:35 Mission and Clement Street shopping. Cheap cultural tours! Lychee from China and Ooblong from Burma!
30:00 Kayaking in Sausalito (Elkhorn Slough near Monterey, or in Inverness)
31:20 Muir Woods
31:50 Poison Oak and ticks, but no mosquitoes!
33:00 Beach and Cliff House, Sutro Heights
33:30 San Francisco weather (fog!)
34:20 deYoung museum (go on Friday night!)
36:00 MoMA
37:00 Wine tasting (Sonoma, Bonny Doon)
37:15 Santa Cruz
37:45 Lawrence Hall of Science
38:20 Where to get good knitting stuff in SF
39:30 Stanford and Berkeley (maybe inaudible at 45:40)
40:00 Cheap eats sheet. Larkin St.!
40:30 Number 30 bus from the Exploratorium