City Walk: Pacific Heights

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• in city walks, San Francisco
• on June 29, 2009
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Continuing on the quest to appease Rosa, and to get through all the urban hikes in our book o’ city walks, we completed another one last Thursday. I know you may be kind of tired of hearing about them. If so, sorry…because we’ve done 10 of them, and there are 26 total. Get excited.

If I had been reading ahead like I usually do, I would have noticed that this one basically connected to the walk we last posted about here, and we could have completed them in one day, although that would have been a lonnnnnnnnng walk. So, instead, we had to go all the way back to pretty much the same area as the last walk.

This walk was in Pacific Heights, which started being developed into a residential area after the first cable cars started running up and over the hills in the 1870s. Parts of it are pretty flat, so the lots were able to be drawn large, and rich people bought them right up and WOW. The homes are enormous. I feel like I have said that about a few of the walks already, but these are a new level of outlandishly huge. They’re more like homes you would see on a plantation, with hundreds of acres of land around them. Except they’re in a city, right next to each other, on the same streets.

View of the Bay from our starting point

This is where the Consulate General of Norway hangs out. We passed by a few residences of Consulate Generals…including Norway, Indonesia, Italy, and Ireland.

Alta Plaza Park, built on a really steep bit of land. Problem solved with LOTS of stairs. Great view at the top though. Also at the top – a picnic table full of adults letting their children run amok in the playground, and their dogs chase each other, while they chilled with several bottles of wine.

The port-o-potty down on street level that Dan had to run down and use, since the bathrooms in the park had already been locked for the day. I’m pretty sure he was actually in there when I took this picture. (TMI?)

House. Not sure what else to say about this. Except, WHY do people have this much money?!?

House again. Hahaha not really. It’s actually a private school for K-8th grades. Still, pretty ridiculous. (D: It still used to be someone’s house!)

Aston Martin. Parked on the street, in front of a house with a garage. What on earth is in the garage?

And now, for movie fun facts of the day:

House front that was used as the school front in The Princess Diaries



House from Mrs. Doubtfire

(Stats, for Rosa. Per Google Earth, walk was 2.55 miles and took us 1 hr. 45 mins.)