Essay - San Francisco When a Seasoned Traveler or Travel-writer is Asked:...

San Francisco

When a se*****soned traveler or travel-writer is asked: "So, what is the best place you've visited or what is ***** most favorite place you've visited?" For those truly afflicted with wanderlust, the true answer should be "none" since each and every place in the world has something to offer. Every city, town or province in any country has something best to tender that no o*****r place ***** - only in the "eyes of the beholder" that ***** beauty of such a ***** can be seen.

This is not to say ***** preferences are ***** want*****g considering m***** a writer, poet, journalist, etc. have written about great cities old ***** new. Take for example the myriad accolades vested upon New York, Paris, Rome, London, Cairo, Milan and of course ***** San *****. These are living ***** breathing places that indeed take your breath away especially if you are a traveler *****h*****en by the ***** and splendor *****se great cities have to offer. ***** Francisco for ***** matter is one of the extraordinary places not only to visit but live in. Like any great *****, it is a blend of ***** old ***** the ***** and this is w*****nessed by ***** physical structures as well ***** the people ***** in it.

***** prolific travel-writer Pauline Frommer described San Francisco as: "Songs have been written, movies made ***** books penned all about how darn perfect a city ***** Francisco is. From its sweeping bay views to gingerbread Victorian houses to absurdly angled streets its eye-candy of the highest order. Add to that a world-class restaurant and shopping scene and ***** have ***** ***** ***** in the US that we'd all probably move to... (*****, 2006)" Indeed San *****, SF, ***** Fran or Frisco is all these ***** more. ***** the locals, San *****cisco comprises Down*****, South of Market, North Beach and Marina, Fisherman's Wharf, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park, Pacific Ocean Coast, ***** across Sausali***** and the V*****ey.

Tourists ***** *****ors need only envy the ***** for having a plethora of cultural, social, historical and environmental smorgasbord that intrigues and heightens the senses. "San Francisco includes historians, geographers, poets, novelists, artists, art historians, photographers, journalists, citizen activists, an architect, ***** an anthropologist. Passionate about ***** city, they want ***** Francisco to be more San ***** and less like the city of office towers, chain stores, theme parks, and privatized public services and property ***** appears to be its immediate fate. In this book, 'reclaiming' is a synonym for both res*****r*****tion and criticism. The ***** is an anthology of fresh appraisals of the contrarian spirit of the city - a ***** 'resistant to authority or control.' The official s*****ry of San Francisco has been one of progress, development, and growth. But *****re are other, unofficial, San Francisco st*****ies, often shrouded in myth and ***** danger of being *****gotten, and they are told here: stories of immigrants ***** minorities; sailors and waterfront workers; poets, *****ists, and neighborhood activists - along ***** the