Tag: goldengate

  • Salesforce Tower Tour

    I got to see the city from a new perspective yesterday thanks to the free Salesforce Tower Tour. Tickets for this are rarely available and are snapped up quickly — somehow I was able to snag one back in June. The line to enter the tour is on the small plaza at Mission and Fremont,…

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  • Breaking down San Francisco landmarks in the Watch Dogs 2 trailer

    This week Ubisoft launched a trailer for their upcoming game, Watch Dogs 2. While I wasn’t particularly impressed by the first entry in the series, a 3rd person action/hacking game, the sequel immediately interested me due to the setting: San Francisco and the Bay Area at large. You can watch the trailer below or here.…

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  • San Francisco bridges

    Ah yes, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge, two icons of the San Francisco bay. Or are they? Actually I lied — neither bridge pictured are located in San Francisco. One is in Portugal, the other Scotland. Both are sister bridges of the Bay Bridge, according to Wikipedia, and were built by the…

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  • Fort Point

    Today I visited Fort Point for the first time since I was very little. In fact it was part of a Y-Westerner’s trip. So that means I was maybe in first grade at the time. Something like that. Anyway, if you’re a local history buff, a Civil War buff, a Golden Gate Bridge buff, or…

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