San Francisco
Explore Like a Diva!
Hike it: Keep step
with SF Diva Adah Bakalinsky by taking one of the suggested hikes from her book
Staircase Walks in San Francisco.fdel Get vertical and you'll see a side
of the city that will make your heart pound!
Ferry to Angel Island and hike to the top
(360 degree views for Girl360). Hike Golden
Gate Park on a car-free Sunday, or along the
Pacific at Fort Funston while hang gliders soar above you.
Bike it:
Score a bike at Blazing Saddles and take off like the wind. Ferry
to Sausalito or Tiburon and explore from there. Cross the Golden
Gate or cycle the Marina Green and Crissy Field where locals love
to keep fit. Circle Angel Island and when you get to the
Immigration Station imagine courageous girls like fifteen
year old Mary Lee Young who
worked the sweatshops of Chinatown in 1924
to help support her siblings. She ferried to
the Station every week to visit her mom who was detained there for over a year.
Examine it: Dive into the Marine Mammal Center where ocean Diva Frances Gullard and her team rescue and rehabilitate injured seals and sea lions. Meeting their most recent patients will make you smile! While you're there spot rad girls ripping it in the zone at Rodeo Beach. Check out the awesome interactive science experiments at The Exploratorium and stand atop the Living Roof at The Academy of Sciences.
Delve into it:
Live the diversity and richness of SF's neighborhoods. A Mission
District Precita Eyes Mural Tour will open yours. In the 60s when
her mom told her that going to college to be an artist was loco, "crazy"
for a Latina, Patricia Rodriquez bucked tradition and eventually
founded the all women's Las Mujeres Muralistas. Today
the Mission District is covered with astounding murals,
many created by emerging female muralists. In North Beach
sink your teeth into the city's yummiest pizza at
North Beach Pizza. Write in your journal at Caffé Trieste, like
famous beat poets did before you. Light it up at
City Lights Books and next door discover what Maya Angelou has to say in
Jack Kerouac Alley. In Chinatown create your own future in
Ross Alley's Fortune Cookie Factory. For great flavor try
dim sum at City View and the Chinese markets of Stockton Street.
Savor it:Female chef divas are stirring
it up all over San Fran. Chef Annie Somerville,
of Greens, developed a love for fresh organic
food and a healthy lifestyle at a young age
cooking at the Green Gulch Zen Center. You'll
love quirky and fun Lovejoys Tea Room run by
best college buddies Gillian Briley and Muna
Nashashibi. And turn on
your taste buds at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market with local producers like women-owned Cow Girl Creamery.
Create in it:
Make your very own claymation, music video or other cool media-arts projects
at the Zeum. Director Audrey Yamamoto is sure you'll have a blast. Or paint
pottery at Terra Mia in one of our favorite neighborhoods, Noe Valley.
Treasure it:
Watch the city lights come on from Twin Peaks or Alamo Square.
And stand on the edge of the sky at the De Young Museum's
uber modern tower. Fave ice cream? Bi-Rite Creamery. Hot Chocolate?
Bittersweet. Find hidden treasure wherever you are in the City.
Log on to geocaching.com. Have fun with this SF scavenger hunt, and
beware of the "Muggles."
Tell us what's great and girl friendly in your city. If we use your suggestion in a future issue of Girl360, you'll get a free Girl360 greeting card set. We can't wait to hear from you! Email us at: trips@girl360.net







