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Originally Posted by Cowperson
If you have a car, make sure you watch Bullitt before you go and do exactly what those guys did. You'll know what I mean. Even if you go a little slower it's still fun.
Cross the Golden Gate and somewhere around the Sausalito turnoff is a road that takes you through a ridiculously long one lane tunnel, out the other side of a mountain and then you can drive up to a spectacular lookout overlooking the bridge. Breezy but nice.
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That area is Mt Tamalpais. Great view of the bay area. If you do have a car and want to stay in SF, there is a drive up one of the higher hills (if you can find it) that is a great view.
Most of the stuff in SF is either Fisherman's Wharf or Union Square. Everything seems to encompass those 2.
I would hop on a BART and take a look at Berkeley, I liked Berkeley a lot.
Most of the best places I went to eat in SF was a hole in the wall type of place. Certainly no Siberro's.
The show "Wicked!" seems to get a lot of attention, and my friends who came to visit me a few months ago saw it and liked it a lot.
SJ, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Carmel and Big Sur are all real nice but a long drive, not sure if you are looking to go to SF with the idea of leaving the SF Bay area. (Although I do agree, Big Sur and 17 mile drive is probably 1/5 most beautiful sights I've ever seen. But I think that whole area of Santa Cruz, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur is worth a few days and, even though I'm really bias, I have to mention Pinnacles in there.) The best part of SF is just absorbing the ambiance rather than running around and trying to see everything, so I'd just sit back and enjoy the city rather than make things too complicated IMO.