Like anyone really needs more of a reason to fall in love with San Francisco, the tourism board has developed a cute, heartwarming video showcasing all the little bites of life that make SF...well, SF. And there literally are bites, of pancakes.

The video is titled "A Day in the Life," but all the different neighborhoods, landmarks and little social experiences make it more of a week, or several weeks if you're an average visitor trying to hit them all.

It's definitely no ">time-lapse, tilf-shift Lisbon, but it is a nice watch if you're trying to convince yourself to hit the City by the Bay in 2012, or if you already live there and want to fall back in love with the city.]]> JetSetCD 2012-01-31T17:41:19-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/11/28/152224/81

As many already know, we have a serious obsession with airline cocktails, and so much is our passion that we've created a whole first-Friday-of-the-month feature called In-Flight Cocktail of the Month, which highlights the special concoctions that flight attendants whip up with only a cocktail shaker, some tiny liquor bottles and a whole lot of hope that it won't make you drunk and unruly.

Up until now, Virgin Atlantic's In-Flight Cocktail of the Month accolades have been the liquidy soundtrack to our past two summers. But a cocktail is for life, not just the hot months, so for December we're warming up with the SFO Clubhouse's signature cocktail: the Virgin Kiss. ]]> juliab 2011-12-02T14:04:58-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/9/28/83423/0623

We already knew San Francisco was worthy, green and eco-friendly – but we didn’t realize just what happy little green things they were until our most recent visit.

There we were walking down Nob Hill when we looked closer at the line of saplings planted along the street and saw that each had not only a little placard saying what they were, but also an inspirational quote about the importance of trees.

Here’s a nice one from JFK:

The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The marshall replied, ‘In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!’

It was as we were in San Francisco the week before last, strolling the Castro, chuckling at the names of places like Rock Hard the shop, the Sausage Factory restaurant and Hand Job (the nail salon) that we got ourselves a little jolt of history.

At 575 Castro Street (next to Hand Job, in fact) is the center for the Human Rights Campaign of San Francisco. It also happens to be the former premises of Castro Camera, the shop belonging to Harvey Milk.

Milk, of course, was assassinated in 1978, having being elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors as America’s first openly gay man in public office.

The HRC center has a little bit of everything – from striking campaign stats by the front door of state by state views of same-sex marriage, adoption, and housing laws, and a timeline of gay rights in San Francisco, to various items of clothing and souvenirs of San Francisco – all to a jaunty soundtrack of Madonna.]]> juliab 2011-09-27T11:30:02-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/9/26/94140/3916

No sign of Laura Palmer here

We may not have had such good luck with the Golden Gate Bridge on our recent trip to San Francisco, but going up here more than made up for it – this is the view from Twin Peaks.

It’s not as easy a place to reach as, say, Coit Tower, but, as we discovered this visit, it’s a much, much better vantage point. From Twin Peaks, get 360 degree views of the entire city, taking in the four bridges of San Francisco – from the Golden Gate, past the Richmond-San Rafael and the Bay Bridge right down to the monster San Mateo.

Of course, you also see the Pacific, Alcatraz, Sausalito and the city of San Fran itself. And from this angle, looking down at the buildings, scattered over all the hills, is actually as fascinating as staring at the bridges themselves. ]]> juliab 2011-09-26T09:41:40-05:00 http://www.jaunted.com/story/2011/9/23/13301/7707

A grubby lagoon and some fog, right? But that’s some very special fog there – because it’s fog that’s almost entirely blanketing the Golden Gate Bridge.

Yes, if you’re anything like us, you’ll have listened to San Franciscans moaning about the fog, warning you that you might not be able to see the Golden Gate Bridge on the date of your choosing, and thought, fog, schmog.

And then you’ll head out there and wonder where the bridge is.

Luckily for us, in this game of peekaboo that we had the week before last, the bridge decided to stick a bit of its arch out to let us at least know in which general direction it stood:

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[Note: we've only seen the ladies room]

The cleaning lady thought we were crazy taking pictures inside a restroom, but the public restrooms at Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport are actually something to write home about.

Flattering lighting, stools in the makeup room and—boy oh boy—Dyson Airblade hand dryers? Be still our frequent flying hearts! ]]> JetSetCD 2011-09-16T14:52:51-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/