a few unsolicited recommendations for your trip to the Bay Area :)
1. Walk San Francisco - pick a spot and then walk for hours; it's fun to go from one good coffee shop / lunch spot to another and maybe stop at a bookstore here and there. A good trajectory is from the Mission (around say 23rd and Valencia) all the way up to the Marina. SF isn't that big -- you'll pass some sketchy parts but for the most part will go through nice places. Doing multiple walks like this can give you a great feeling for the city
2. try to go to Marin if you can (north of SF) - it's touristy but either doing a bike trip there, going for a hike in Marin or going on a boat to Sausalito from the Ferry Building are all really enjoyable
3. I recommend also visiting Stanford Campus and Palo Alto if you can - it'll give you a very different view of the Bay
4. The East Bay is a completely different vibe and feeling - if you can visit it can also give you a different feeling for the Bay's complexity
If you just see SF you might have a narrower view for "The Bay Area". Happy travels!
I lived in the Bay Area for eight years, but I spent last week in San Francisco and now I just want to move there. It was just the best week, and I felt like I met “my people” there. Have a wonderful time!
Like this a lot. Very much feel your vibe/thoughts coming through.
And funnily enough I just wrote about a related thing this morning, actually. The hypothesis that the unspoken secret to “get in” on the “Global Idea Sharing” space is to visit or live in the US.
The randomness of reading this on my return trip home - to France - from SFO today is amusing. But I share these feelings anytime I get to go to the Bay Area: it's uplifting as well as disappointing. It's just a place, and yet has a subtle but unique vibe. It's hard to put it in words, but it usually gives me a sense of increasing all my ambitions. Even that is a double-edged feeling though: I leave wanting to do more, but also feeling more inadequate.
Also, Silicon Valley is disappointing to me now, because no one goes there anymore, everyone works remotely, and it felt a bit ghost-towny. I don't think this is true of SF or the East Bay though.
a few unsolicited recommendations for your trip to the Bay Area :)
1. Walk San Francisco - pick a spot and then walk for hours; it's fun to go from one good coffee shop / lunch spot to another and maybe stop at a bookstore here and there. A good trajectory is from the Mission (around say 23rd and Valencia) all the way up to the Marina. SF isn't that big -- you'll pass some sketchy parts but for the most part will go through nice places. Doing multiple walks like this can give you a great feeling for the city
2. try to go to Marin if you can (north of SF) - it's touristy but either doing a bike trip there, going for a hike in Marin or going on a boat to Sausalito from the Ferry Building are all really enjoyable
3. I recommend also visiting Stanford Campus and Palo Alto if you can - it'll give you a very different view of the Bay
4. The East Bay is a completely different vibe and feeling - if you can visit it can also give you a different feeling for the Bay's complexity
If you just see SF you might have a narrower view for "The Bay Area". Happy travels!
Thanks! So far I've just seen downtown Oakland, I definitely need to go for a long walk in SF as soon as I can :)
I lived in the Bay Area for eight years, but I spent last week in San Francisco and now I just want to move there. It was just the best week, and I felt like I met “my people” there. Have a wonderful time!
Like this a lot. Very much feel your vibe/thoughts coming through.
And funnily enough I just wrote about a related thing this morning, actually. The hypothesis that the unspoken secret to “get in” on the “Global Idea Sharing” space is to visit or live in the US.
Or maybe Amsterdam and a bicycle trip along the route where slaves lived in the private houses of the Amsterdam people? :)
https://mappingslavery.nl/maps/netherlands-by-city/nlamsterdam/?lang=en
The randomness of reading this on my return trip home - to France - from SFO today is amusing. But I share these feelings anytime I get to go to the Bay Area: it's uplifting as well as disappointing. It's just a place, and yet has a subtle but unique vibe. It's hard to put it in words, but it usually gives me a sense of increasing all my ambitions. Even that is a double-edged feeling though: I leave wanting to do more, but also feeling more inadequate.
Also, Silicon Valley is disappointing to me now, because no one goes there anymore, everyone works remotely, and it felt a bit ghost-towny. I don't think this is true of SF or the East Bay though.
Hope you find what you're looking for!