He had worked Monday through Thursday night. I arrived on Thursday night. After what felt like a long flight and then an Uber into the city, Shawn and I met at The Barnes Hotel in Union Square and walked across to Johnny Foley’s Irish Pub. It was fun to jump right into a date night out!
The next morning, we had breakfast in the hotel lobby and walked around the area a bit. We found a Peet’s coffee and a super cool hotel lobby decked out in autumn colors!
After breakfast, we pretty quickly made the most of the day by jumping on some Bay Wheels bikes and heading to the west side of the city. We biked and walked through Golden Gate Park, taking the scenic route to Ocean Beach. Ocean Beach is an expansive sandy beach, great surf spot and very scenic with Seal Rocks and other landforms along the shoreline.
We parked our bikes to enjoy some time near the water. We were very excited to find a place called Beach Chalet Brewery. All the things we love!
We had incredible brussel sprouts, a burger and a salad.
We then continued our adventure - with a loose plan to follow the shoreline clockwise back to our hotel. We biked some, we hiked some and we scootered some!
We biked over to the Sutro Heights area, where we hiked up to a beautiful overlook.
We continued the route along the Lands End Lookout, took the Coastal Trail (with views of the Golden Gate Bridge), made it through Presidio (with barely enough battery on our scooters!) and stopped for a drink at Barrio in Ghirardelli Square.
At this point, we headed back toward the hotel to try to make it back in the daylight.
We loved the view from our hotel room - so many cargo ships out in the bay.
We visited 21st Amendment Brewing a few times throughout the weekend - they came to know Shawn by name...
A few other highlights from the weekend included:
Renting a car for the day to visit Muir Woods...
A stop in Saulsulito...
Hanging out at the Ferry Building...
Biking down to Oracle Park and up to Pier 39 / Fisherman's Wharf...
And meeting up with Martina and Chris at 47 Hills Brewing Co just before our flight out!!
Such a great adventure weekend!
