Lots of interesting tours available, from the looks of things. I'm very enamoured of the notion of a boat trip, although this sounds a little costly. But I'm very enamoured of the notion of dressing up as a Fireman and touring around in an open air 1955 fire engine.

peruses site for a while

...remarkably, for a meetup of Buffistas, nobody has mentioned the existence of Angel Island before. No mention is made of pouty souled vampires with nancy boy hair gel, but I understand it's a short ferry ride from Pier 41, and that there's a tram tour of the island. Is this good? It sounds rather nice.

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...Oooh! What about The Exploratorium and The Tactile Dome? (mind boggles wildly)

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Or Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum? Is this good? It sounds good!

Lots of interesting things happening in SF in May....why yes, I am starting to get quite excited. Why do you ask?

I'm doing Alcatraz Friday night, Winchester Saturday, Baseball Sunday. I might do a field trip on Thursday, but mostly I want to be hanging and snogging visiting with Buffistas.

I've done Ripley's a couple other places and mostly found it creepy, but not in a good way. The ones I went to were rather run down and nasty. The SF Ripley's may be shiny.

I'm coming in Wednesday afternoon (I wanted to give myself a chance to wander around and soak up the atmosphere, so to speak), so I'll be around to help set up the HS. I'd love to do just about anything with the Buffistas.

And I'll be around until Tuesday morning - I was thinking about sitting back with some overstimulated Buffistas and just drinking and relaxing on Monday.

Late is better than never, so I'm just chiming in to let AmyLiz know I will be around on Monday.

Cool!

Meh. Skip Ripley's, and, really, skip anything Pier 39ish or Fisherman's Wharf-y, except you really should see the Musée Mechanique at Pier 45 (warning: at least one page on the MM website has sound, and anyone who's been there before can guess exactly what sound it is).

If you're hell-bent on chocolate (and if not, why not?), Scharffen Berger over in Berkeley has factory tours and is much tastier than Ghirardelli.

Angel Island I know nothing about, 'cept it's pretty.

I'd really like to go to the Musee Mechanique, if it works out schedule-wise.

Angel Island was the West Coast Ellis Island, according to the Alcatraz Tour people...the Asian people came in there. What? I'm the family internet "Expert"

I like Angel Island - my maternal great grandfather & familly lived there for a while, I think when it was a naval station. My great grandmother usd to row around it. And I think my dad was processed there when he immigrated. So it's fun for the whole family, as long as the family is, you know, mine.

Anyway, it's mostly a park with pretty nature and very pleasant, but nothing spectacular and not broody at all. Much as I like it, I wouldn't really recommend a visit if you have time constraints. If you have an extra week in SF, taking a day to go picnic would be reasonable.

I would like to do something sea-related, if possible. I miss the sea. Boat trips? Ferries? Something along those lines would be cool.

the Musée Mechanique at Pier 45 (warning: at least one page on the MM website has sound, and anyone who's been there before can guess exactly what sound it is).

Gah. Shudder. Euw. I run past that thing almost every day, and it still gives me a wiggins.

(I do actually like Fisherman's Wharf, but I'm not there as a tourist, I'm there to use the tourists as a human obstacle course during my run. Plus, I get to see Alcatraz. Pretty.)

The localistas will, of course, be around early, and this localista has made sure she's available for the hanging out with Buffistae. So.