Tag: waterfront

  • Not-so secret passages: San Francisco’s walkways hidden in plain sight

    Like many urban environments, San Francisco has a plethora of walkways that are incredibly useful, yet for whatever reason are just off the beaten path enough to avoid large crowds. Many of them are hidden due to unclear signage, others are quite obvious yet are widely overlooked. Now there are many I could place on…

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  • Vaillancourt Fountain

    Of all the controversial elements of San Francisco, Vaillancourt Fountain easily evokes the strongest love-it-or-hate-it response of any water feature. Sitting in the corner of Embarcadero Plaza (formerly Justin Herman Plaza) it looks like a large knot of rectangular pipes spewing water in various directions — when it’s on, that is. Over the past couple…

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  • A walk along San Diego’s Embarcadero

    Walking along San Diego’s Embarcadero brought back a lot of unexpected memories. But I’ll get to that in a moment. Far too late in my trip I thought it’d be great to book a sunset cruise on San Diego’s bay. By the time I thought of this there were no available cruises. If you think…

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