San Francisco Saturday Day-Trip Itinerary

Getting out of Sacramento and going to The City:

1. 6AM--7:55AM Depart Sacramento and travel to San Francisco by car.
   
2. 8AM--9:30AM Muir Woods--$5/adult. Open 8AM--~6PM in mid-September.
   
3. 10:05AM--10:30PM Fisherman's Wharf--park, walk to Ghiradelli Square and eat packed mid-morning snacks. Ghiradelli Chocolates?
   
4. Walk to adjacent Beach & Hyde Streets to buy SF municipal transit day passes (Passports)--$11/each, only accepts cash.
   
5. Cable car (Powell-Hyde Line) to Chinatown (Washington & Mason, then walk down a few blocks to get to Chinatown proper around Grant Avenue).
6. 11AM--12:30PM Walk through historic Chinatown
7. Walk south from Union Square to Market & Powell and take #21 bus to 55 Music Concourse Drive in Golden Gate Park.
8. 1:30PM--5PM Attend opening day of California Academy of Sciences (free). Prior to going in, eat packed lunches.
   
9. Eat late-afternoon snacks. Take #21 bus, then F light rail to Fisherman's Wharf.
10. 6:30PM--8:30PM trip home. Eat on the way home (IHOP?) or when we arrive home.
    

• Will this itinerary survive first contact with reality? I think so--I've performed around a half-dozen guided tours of San Francisco. Potential problems--cable car lines and opening day crush of people at the California Academy of Sciences.
• Need to get cash before we go--$18 for Muni Passports, $10 tolls (Golden Gate Bridge, Carquinez Straits)--around $40 should do it.

Things to bring:

• Camera
• Water bottles
• Food
• Map
• Layered clothing (can get chilly by the ocean)
  
• Comfortable shoes
• Contact lens case and solution
• Cash
• Backpack for carrying any purchases
• Sunscreen
• Sunglasses