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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
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