Andytown @ San Franpsycho + Spicoli shirt!

We took the streetcar back to our hotel and freshened up for a few hours..

only to head out again (via car this time) to the Inner Sunset...

Honey Creme, Inner Sunset

After our lunch at the now defunct Takuya Hot Dog Bowl...

we crossed the street to this new dessert shop...

SFSU + the now defunct Takuya Hot Dog Bowl, Inner Sunset

We did make to the university on time...

ahead of time in fact, making sure we parked in the structure closest to the meeting place...

Spring Break Trip 2017 - Day 5 Highlights

Our vacation days cannot begin unless...

we have coffee...

Spring Break Trip 2017 - Day 4 Highlights

Back in the Sunset District again...

The street car lines, telephone poles and vibrantly painted homes make us feel at home...

Return to Pineapple King

Okay, I lied. Before we crashed at our motel, we went to the Inner Sunset...

to this popular bakery,

to Pineapple King once more...

Hollow Coffee + more scenes from Irving Street and Parkside

A few blocks down from Snowbird Coffee & Arizmendi Bakery...

was yet another hipster coffee shop, Hollow Coffee.

Bert already knew what he wanted...

Return to Arizmendi Bakery + scenes from Irving Street

A mere stone's throw away from Snowbird Coffee was yet another local fave...

Arizmendi Bakery, a co-op serving delicious breads and pastries.

We noticed the new parklet in front...

Snowbird Coffee

Today was the day of hitting up hipster coffee joints.

Yeah, I know that's an unpoetic way of labeling it, but yes, these were just that.

We went from Noriega St. to Irving St. in the Inner Sunset...

San Tung #2

(I'm on a roll here, trying to finish up the Summer 2015 photos as well as Spring and Summer 2016)

Continuing with Day 6 of our epic road trip...we got picked up by my cousin and her second daughter. The first one was traveling while the youngest, her son, was out with his dad.

She took us from our motel from Parkside to the Inner Sunset.

My niece  recommended a popular Chinese place, known for their wings...

Summer Road Trip 2015 - Day 8 Highlights

Our stay in the Parkside neighborhood was all too short. Near our hotel we noted that a whole block was razed....

whereas during our road trip last Memorial Day, it was still there...

Hidden Garden Steps

In retrospect we could have walked here from the Mosaic Steps on 16th Avenue...

but instead, we reparked and found out it was only a few streets away...

Grand View Park

Once we reached the top of the 16th Avenue Tiled Steps, we hung a right where we saw yet another set of steps...

which weren't tiled but which is on an area known to locals as "Turtle Hill"...

The 16th Avenue Tiled Steps

The morning was still young so we ventured to the Inner Sunset neighborhood...

 to check out the 16th Avenue Tiled steps, also known as the Mosaic Steps (sometimes even called the Moraga Steps)...

Holy Gelato!

A few blocks down from Peasant Pies and around the corner was a gelato place I looked up online...

We still had some room for some gelato, believe it or not...

Peasant Pies

We were digging all of the different places we saw on Irving Street, but it was this place that was specifically sought out...

We wanted something small and snacky and not a huge meal to tide us over until the wedding...

Scenes from Irving Street, Inner Sunset

After checking out the murals at the Beach Chalet at the Golden Gate Park Visitor's Center, we headed east towards the Inner Sunset...

We drove on Lincoln St, which is parallel to the bottom of Golden Gate Park. Here are the gates...

My fears of crappy street parking were realized as we drove past block after block of filled streets...

SF Road Trip Day 3 Highlights

I wanted us to hit up that popular bakery in the Outer Sunset right when it opened.

(poster on the bakery's window)

Luckily, there wasn't a big crowd yet. We knew the bride's cupcakes were from here and this place was also highly recommended by my cousin so of course, we HAD to, since we were "in the area"....

SF Road Trip - Day 2 Highlights

The weekend started off right with a really great breakfast at a nearby eatery...

where I had the BEST pancake I've ever had in my life (of the banana walnut persuasion)....

followed by a short walk across the street which led us to...