Every time I’m in San Francisco. The best burritos in town, and the home of cheap luggage.
People speak to me in English (I’m as pale as it gets), I answer in Spanish, and its all smiles.
Also badly affected these days by the downturn in business. A lot of closed storefronts sadly, even somewhere which should be recession-proof.
But more to the point, its also pentecostal-evangelical central, full of little DIY churches.
If you don’t like your local churches, well, you are in America. Start your own.
Never been to San Francisco. Never had the desire. The only time I was in California was in 2007 to take a 5-day cruise. An old friend who lived in Arizona had already booked and paid for it. I’d never taken a cruise before, and she figured that it was short enough for me to decide if it was anything I’d do again. I flew to Arizona from Syracuse, NY, and she drove us to San Diego a couple of days before the cruise left. We went to the San Diego Zoo, and went to Balboa Park, viewing the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit that was at the Museum of Natural History. I decided that ship cruises were not my thing, and never went on another one. In fact, that was the last time I ever flew.