The Golden Gate, Alcatraz, Cable Cars & The City Where American Counterculture Was Born
📍 San Francisco, United States📅 3-day itinerary
A 7-by-7-mile peninsula on 43 hills where the world's most photographed bridge disappears into fog each morning, where a federal island prison holds the story of every great escape attempt for 29 years of failed tries, where the last manually operated cable cars in the world climb streets so steep they appear vertical, and where the Summer of Love, Beat poetry and gay liberation all happened within a few blocks of each other.
Walking the 1.7 km East Sidewalk of the International Orange Bridge as Fog Rolls Through the Gate from the Pacific & The Island Prison Where 36 Escape Attempts in 29 Years Produced Zero Confirmed Successes
The Grip Man Clamping Onto a Moving Cable Beneath the Street to Drag a Wooden Car up Nob Hill in the World's Last Manually Operated Cable Car System & The Intersection Where 100,000 Young Americans Converged in 1967 to Change Culture
The Best Farmers' Market in America Inside an 1898 Ferry Terminal Where Bay Area Sourdough and Tomales Bay Oysters Have Been Artisan Standards for 30 Years & The Six Victorian Houses Photographed More Than Any Other Group of Houses in the United States