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Billy October 19, 2016 Leave a Comment

San Francisco 2016 Food Diary, Day 2

I started off the day with a strawberry danish at Caffè Trieste in North Beach.  (It can’t always be a chocolate croissant!)

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Billy October 17, 2016 Leave a Comment

San Francisco 2016, Day 2, Part 1

North Beach (Part 1), Russian Hill, and Washington Square

I took a lovely walk through Chinatown on the way to North Beach in the morning.  The borders between the 2 neighborhoods are getting very blurry. [Read more…]

Filed Under: United States Tagged With: Alcatraz, Christianity, Gay Travel, North America, San Francisco, United States, US West

Billy October 10, 2016 Leave a Comment

Call Me “Mr. Ambassador”!

You bet I am! San Francisco, United States, North America.
You bet I am!

The year I became an Ambassador.  A Castro Ambassador.  What does that mean?  It means that from May to October, about once a week, you could find me in San Francisco’s Castro District helping out visitors to the neighborhood.  Armed with maps and brochures, I set up shop at the top of the stairs above the Castro station on San Francisco’s Muni system.  By far, most of the [Read more…]

Filed Under: United States Tagged With: Gay Travel, Holocaust, North America, San Francisco, United States, US West

Billy October 8, 2016 2 Comments

San Francisco 2016, Day 1, Part 2

Barbary Coast Trail–Embarcadero – Fisherman’s Wharf to Nob Hill

I had seen so much already on my 1st day of sightseeing in San Francisco.  And I still had so much more to see! [Read more…]

Filed Under: United States Tagged With: AIDS, Alcatraz, Christianity, Gay Travel, Golden Gate Bridge, History, North America, San Francisco, United States, US West, WWII

Billy October 6, 2016 Leave a Comment

San Francisco 2016 Food Diary, Day 1

San Francisco has a reputation as a great food city.  But it’s not like I’m going out for gourmet meals every night.  And like any place, eating out can be a hit-or-miss proposition.  I can definitely say that I had a good mix of eating over the 2016 sightseeing season in San Francisco.

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I started off with a very filling breakfast.  Sears Fine Food is a Union Square institution.  Their most famous dish is their Swedish pancakes.  It may look like they are 6 of them in the picture, but [Read more…]

Filed Under: United States Tagged With: Food, North America, San Francisco, United States, US West

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