- Pretend to be visiting an Alcatraz prisoner.
- Pretend Alcatraz is Azkaban.
- Pick fruits and flowers illegally at the Alcatraz (Azkaban) gardens.
- Subsequently get arrested.
- Play prison guard.
- Crane your neck and gasp in awe at the badass fighter planes swooshing around the SF skyline.
- Escape Azkaban – I mean Alcatraz – once and for all and rejoin civilization.
- Photograph phallus-inspired architecture. (Actually, do this in all your travels.)
- Choose a building to obsess over and consider it your future dwelling place complete with private library.
- Wonder at the ironic address of the cathedral.
- Pretend you're in China.
- Be patriotic.
- Seduce a soldier.
- Pretend to be a wine connoisseur in Sonoma.
- Have fun with murals.
- Sing the theme to Full House in front of Danny Tanner's home.
- Be introspective at the Golden Gate Bridge.
- Experience a California wildfire, sort of.
- Prance around the roof of a Frank Lloyd Wright building after reading a sign expressly forbidding it.
- Get drunk at a Mexican restaurant, and take pictures of bizarre actions you won’t remember later.
- Kick ass.
- Oh, and be sure to wear flowers in your hair.
At long last I have ventured to the West Coast. I had longed to visit San Francisco for years and am happy to report that it did not disappoint. Thank you to Priscilla, my fellow traveler, and Andrew, our gracious host.
