San Francisco “Swirling” and My One Night as a Halfbreed Model

 grrlysquirrel75   Guuurrrl, ess eff (SF) is fanttastic.   Always something to do, plenty of festivals, music partys, bars, events and whatnot.   Plenty of single straight men (amongst the high gay male count) and don't let that discourage you.    It's "Paris Of The West" for a reason. Beautiful and stunning landscapes, super-tough hills (watch where you reside), everything on the planet to eat, and everywhere to "party".   The fog is also awesome, everyone is not a fog lover, but this is SF through Summer, Fall, and Spring.  San Francisco is fabulous and highly open-minded.   There is the city, mountains, skiing about 2 1/2 hrs away and every other event known to mankind.   It is a free-sprited place for the most part.  SFPD are not cats you want to play with, they are serious about drunken and heavy drug use in their neigborhoods and will let yo' byotch ass know, they don't play.

Other than that, theire's the Marina Green, Chrissy Field (Fireworks), The Embarcadero, Piers 39 and above, bars on nearly every block, serious financial district (Justin Herman Plazar, Rincon Center, The Embarcadero), shopping - Market, Powell Street, with everything on it and the finest shopping in the world for whatever ones' taste, the trolleys, the club scene.   I mean anything you want is in San Francisco.  L.A. is a whole 'nother region altogether.   San Francisco is an intellectual region, L.A. is for plastic beauty for the most part in and of itself (all beauty, little brains).   Man, y'all got me thinkin' about movin' back there, EXPENSIVE as heyall ess eff is, but worth it. The neighborhoods and MUNI is/are AWESOME. 

 uninterracial Oh I know what part you're talking about--that hill of projects, huh? 

 Christelyn Yeah, I grew up in the neighborhood down from there which is considered Bayview. Although the city itself is wonderful, that area still has ALOT of work to do. The young kids are the ones that are completely out of control. I rarely visit anymore because it's so ridiculous. Anyway, I thought you looked wonderful, but I have a question? Where did you get the shirt with the red star on it? I couldn't find it on halfbreed.

 Christelyn   uninterracial   That'd be Hayes Valley, tough long-grade hill and serious projects (built different than NYC projects) but can be Blakistan.  Areas off Divisidero can be a tad bit rough as well as yuppie.    As in anything else there are neighborhoods and streets to avoid, Turk, Leavenworth, a lot of the State named streets (Mississippi, Tennesse, etc.) that go in and through the TL (The Tenderloin) though this is slowly beginning to change with gentrification.   Yeah, SF has its tricky streets because one can go from Russian and Nob Hill, near top of city, through the rough and drug strewn TL, down Sansome or Montgomery to Market street where workers and general commerce are located.  

@DeepWater @Christelyn Very little public housing in Hayes anymore, more like the Fillmore. The hill could be  Hunters Point where a majority of the city's public housing is; Portrero Hill is another big housing project. The flat area below it is Bayview, where I grew up. UCSF and the Giants ballpark totally gentrified the southern state streets around the Portrero Area, it' actually very nice now. I take my kids to the park over there when I visit. I could see why people who visit love the city, but having grown up there, the reality is that it's a hard place to raise children. Most people figure this out as soon as they want to send their kids to pre-school, the they decide to move to the burbs.

 uninterracial  DeepWater  Christelyn   I thought about that uninterracial and you do have it right.  It's a city primarily for, I believe, singles and couples and / or groups of friends, but yeah, not quite the place to raise children.  The flats or formerly known as China Basin (area where The SF Giants play) has totally changed now since I lived there.  The area where UCSF is now the hip, hapnin' place to be so to speak.  

Near Golden Gate Park, Palace of Fine Arts (off Geary), and Gough and Franklin streets toward Market was where where I resided at one time (tough-ass apartment then too....bwaaaahhhhaaaa)..   Never did go toward Bayview Hunters-Point in that I was in the corporate world then so I needed to stay (relatively) near where I worked which was on Spear and California (across Market) a few moments walk for lunch at Justin Herman Plaza in the early 90s.

Also, should someone visit and is/are/were into horticulture,  one can go to the Conservatory of Flowers (I think its called) in Golden Gate Park, spectacular and lush landscapes and ideas for the home or apartment and the park itself, a stunner.

Don't forget y'all SF is home of the San Francisco 49ers, Candlestick Park (forget what corporate name they use now, used to be 3com, I have no clue what it is now, always known as "The Stick"), the San Francisco Giants (I think they are possibly out of the National League race for the World Series as the Oakland A's, acrross the Bay in Oaktown, also home of the Oakland Raiders, "Just Win Baby"- rip Al Davis).   

Piece of trivia:  Lastly, Denise DeBartolo-York owns San Francisco 49ers, one of, I believe, only 2, maybe 3, women in the entire NFL that own an NFL team outright.   I'mma sports freak anyways what can I say. 

"I left my heart in San Francisco", I get it Mr. Bennett....bwaahhhaaaaa.

 m008 Piense señor cubano imagino que ... jajaja ;-)

 eugeniaberg  Eugenia, I want to go back to Seattle so bad!! Maybe early next year.

 ASwirlGirl He was a cutie IRL too...his name is Charles.

 Christelyn  His hat is so fly - and of course I'm digging the beard!

I was so taken with him, I forgot to mention that I really like the look you were rocking! Jeans + boot + Mixed Breed shirt = FAB!!!!! Go, Girl! Woot Woot!

 ASwirlGirl  i was thinking the exact same thing

 AmourelleCorley Girl, yes . . . . . .  LOL!

 VintageNarcissa Thanks for the compliment!