is alphabetical, but within that sprawling group of favorites, I have a tighter group of greater favorites — my own top 10, shaped by desert dawns, summer surf and the tang of tri-tip on a slow Thursday night.
These are places I find myself recommending to newcomers, places where I always linger as long as possible. In California and beyond, the adventure of leaving home is about the attitude you bring, the weather you get and, most of all, the people you meet. It is, as Mr. Wells used to say in 11th-grade algebra, a multivariable equation. Your results will vary.I had a summer job in this park when I was a teenager.
are debating how to respond to homelessness. But in the big picture, this is a place that will lower your blood pressure, not raise it.San Francisco is in a slump, especially the ghostly Financial District. But if it survived 1906, it can survive this. And North Beach remains irresistible. I go to City Lights Books first . For lunch, I might get a big, messy sandwich at Molinari Delicatessen and eat it on a bench in Washington Square.