San Francisco: The North Bay (San Francisco)

Member Name: Janet.Brewster

Product:	San Francisco
Date:	21/08/03 (38 review reads)
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Advantages: Views, Public Transportation, Nature

Disadvantages: , Layer: Hot can become cold in minutes

I live in Tiburon, a very small, quaint tourist-y town in Marin County, USA. The town is located just North of the Golden Gate Bridge and is next to Sausalito, also a small quaint tourist town. [Tiburon: http://www.tiburon.org/][ Sausalito: http://www.ci.sausalito.ca.us/]. Visitors usually come to Tiburon and Sausalito by ferry from San Francisco [Ferry Schedule: http://www.transitinfo.org/cgi-bin/sched?C=BG]; a lovely way to travel with lovely views. If you drive, you cross the Golden Gate Bridge and have easier access to what Marin is on the map for; the Marin Headlands, Point Bonita (a lighthouse); nearly the best views of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge [Marin Headlands: http://homepage.mac.com/leffert/adventures/PhotoAl bum88.html], the Marin hiking paths, which are worth the journey; [Hiking trails: http://www.bahiker.com/northbayhikes/ggnra.html], and to my favorite place, Mt. Tamalpais; which is the best view offering a 360 of all of the bay area [Hiking Tam: http://www.mttam.net/].

The bay area is very good about public transportation; they have BART (equivalent to the TUBE), ferries and busses to take you just about anywhere you would want to go; including the Marin Headlands and other rather remote places. [Public transportation: http://www.transitinfo.org/]

Sausalito is a bit more tourist-y than Tiburon, but has lovely views. Restaurants that have never disappointed me in Sausalito: Scoma’s [http://www.scomassausalito.com/]. Tiburon also has lovely views and access to Angel Island [Angel Island: http://www.angelisland.org/]. As for restaurants; my personal favorites; Servino Ristorante: [http://www.servino.com/contact.htm] and Sam’s Café: http://www.samscafe.com/; both have lovely views and are on the water. Another remarkable view is just before you reach the peak of Mt. Tam. There is an Inn that would fool you from the outside; it has a lovely balcony where you can have wine and cheese and gasp at the view; http:
//www.mtnhomeinn.com/home.html.

While I have, in no way, done the North Bay justice, I will hope it will be a place considered for further exploration!

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