This is a bucket list kind of thing. I've always wanted to visit San Francisco, but during a lifetime spanning parts of eight decades, and many West Coast trips, it never happened. Now, during a cruise booked as my first post-retirement travel, Mrs. Left and I will be docked at Pier 35 North on The Embarcadero for a day and a half in mid-May (on a weeknight, alas, though I checked and the Giants are playing at home). Note that any major league baseball park I haven't yet attended is also a bucket list item.
I've researched San Francisco's conventional, and a few less conventional tours and attractions and no doubt will want to see some of the usual tourist sights. But, what I've learned doesn't leave me feeling like I know how to best use my limited time so that I have a chance to leave San Francisco with a genuine and memorable sense of what gives the City by the Bay its reputation as a truly special place.
I know that many of my fellow Kossacks live in or have lived in San Francisco, or have traveled there extensively or for other reasons know it well. I don't expect to truly know any city, great or small, in such a short visit. Still, I write today to invite comments on how a middle aged couple with mild mobility issues might spend a day and a half in San Francisco and come away with some genuine sense of the place.
The floor is open.