San Francisco Transportation Tips by Bwana_Brown

'Mode': AROUND
Category: Other
Getting TO/AROUND: Enjoy a ride on San Francisco's downtown Cable Car system. These trolleys run a number of routes in the the main part of San Francisco and give you the chance for a different perspective on the city. It is kind of fun to pack yourself into these single-car vehicles as they clank their way up and down the hills of the city! For a $2 fare, ours took us from the Powell St. station up and down the intervening hills to a stop only a couple of blocks from Fisherman's Wharf, with the driver all the while shouting out his funny little ditties about the city and warning passengers hanging onto the sides to watch out for such and such danger coming up! These cars swing themselves around at the end of their ride on a 'round-table' just like a railway locomotive.

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'Mode': TO,AROUND
Category: Car/Motor Home
Getting TO/AROUND: Our flight from New Brunswick, Canada to SF was delayed by a day due to a freezing rain storm in Toronto. The airport ran out of de-icing fluid for the aircraft wings so they had to cancel all flights. At least that gave me a chance for one final snow blow of the driveway the next morning before we headed out on our Air Canada flight at 5 PM. The 2-hour trip to Toronto and the subsequent 5-hour flight to San Francisco went without any further hitches! Once there, I had a one week rental car booking with Hertz. This turned out to be a good deal as far as I was concerned - we ended up with a new Toyota Camrey with unlimited mileage (we put 520 miles on it) for US $242 and I put US $42 in gas in it. The one-week rental reduced the price by 33%.

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