Hey L'Italy!

I thought this guy was Mister SF???

http://www.mistersf.com/



Someone posted this site here long ago.
Good website.

Hi there Kal. Well let's rephrase Stu's description. Stu is OUR Mr. San Francisco!

Hope your weather and air is better, it has improved here!

The last time DH & I were in San Francisco was on our honeymoon almost 25 years ago! So it's only fitting that we are going in March 2009 to celebrate our wedding anniversary!

What good luck to come across this informative thread - thanks, Stu! It will be great fun to rediscover your beautiful city!

2010

L'Italy...

Awesome post on one of my most favorite places in the world!!!

Fantastic, thanks!

bookmarking

hi, Could you please email me your info on Provence?
my email is
[email protected]

thank you, brenda

I'm using this again for our upcoming October trip back to San Francisco.

Thank you, Stu Dudley, for the time and generosity of sharing your wealth of information!!

Wow. Stu, the information here is unbelievable. Kudos. Multiple kudos. Every city needs its own Stu-like tour guide.

Mr. Stu, our travel savior. First France, then Italy, and low and behold we just want to take a week in San Francisco and your name pops up. We automatically smile and know our trip will be, again, fantastic because of all your wonderful time, effort, and knowledge. You have become a household name when we talk about traveling.

Thanks again for all your support and for helping all of us truly get the most enjoyment out of our travels.

eholden

P.S. Do you happen to know of a French restaurant in SF that will have good "Cassoulet au confit de canard" like in Sarlat? My husband hasn't stopped talking about it since we have come home from France.

Thanks again!!

Thanks for the "thank you".

I've only had casoulet a couple of times in SF, and was disappointed.

Stu Dudley

Bookmarking for a hopefully near future trip.

Thanks Stu!

This is fantastic - thank you. Would you recommend renting a car for a 4 day trip to SF? Unfortunately, we are staying in a hotel near Fisherman's Wharf. Fortunately, we are staying for free on hotel points.

I would rent a car for 1 or 2 days and get to some of the places that you can't get to easily by other means - views from the GGNRA on the other side of the GG Bridge, Twin Peaks, Presidio, Fort Point, west of Van Ness, Golden Gate park, Ocean Beach around Cliff House, etc.

Stu Dudley

Stu -
We are visiting SF for first time at end of Sept. We have 10 days to see what we can see. We also are visiting Lake Tahoe on way in and Monterey and Yosemite on the way out (home is midwest). We also want to spend at least 1-2 days north of SF in Sonoma/Napa/Muir.

Our concern is where to stay since we want to park free and have a base around SF and ride cable cars, etc. It needs to be a safe, clean place, but we will spend all our daylight hours sight-seeing. I've heard you talk about the Marina near Lombard. Would that fit our description? Or one of the towns out north of GG?

Any info on Tahoe and Yosemite also appreciated.

Great info -

I don't know anything about specific hotels, but any on Lombard St west of Polk St (Motel Row) would be fine. The closer to Van Ness the better. There are some in that region that might not have Lombard St addresses - but the general location is the same. I think there is one on Union & Van Ness (same region as Lombard St motels) which would be a good fit also.

Stu Dudley

Hi Stu
Thanks for all the great info. I have a couple of questions I hope you can answer. First of all we are thinking about visiting San Francisco in the beginning of November but after reading about the weather we are having second thoughts. How cold can we expect it to be that time of year? Also, what do you think about the hotel 480? Thanks for any advice you can give.

This year the weather has been very strange. No rain since about February. Right now we're supposed to get our best weather. It has been chilly & very foggy instead. Even cooler temps predicted for the next few days.

No telling what it will be like in early November. usually it's pretty nice then.

I don't know anything about hotels, since I don't stay in them.

Stu Dudley

Stu -
Thanks for posting such complete routes. We are first time visitors to California. We wanted to see the Golden Gate Bridge. Now we know there's a lot more to do and are excited. We hit SF on 10/1 for three days. Just wanted you to know how much we appreciate your information.

bailey3909