Eat your way through...

When making plans to visit a new location in which you wish to sightsee, it is a good idea to garner some suggestions from natives of the area, or someone who has lived there, or someone who has at least visited there in the past century, or someone who could, when shown the location on a map and a picture of Kim Jong-un, correctly identify which one you wish to visit.

Accordingly, anticipating a trip to San Francisco, we consulted some friends who used to live there as to what we should do when we --

"Go to Tony's Pizza," the husband said. 

Tony's Pizza , we learned, is THE most wonderful pizza place in San Francisco, nay, in the whole world, and if we don't go there while we are in the area, we might as well just not go on the trip at all.

"Great," we said. "Tony's Pizza it is. What else?"

"There's an Italian restaurant, Scoma's...and you also have to go to Sodini's...oh, and Tommaso..."

"Napa," his wife said firmly. "You HAVE to go to wine country. More than once."

"And then there's Delfina," the husband continued. 

His wife objected. "If they do all that, all they'll be doing on their trip is eating."

"And the problem with that is...?" he said.

So, based on their very helpful recommendations, we have devised a tentative itinerary:

1. Little Tony's
2. Trolley
3. Italian restaurant
4. Nap
5. Wine country
6. Italian restaurant
7. Repeat 1-6 daily, #4 as many times as necessary

Now, we know that it will not be enough to merely say that yes, we ate at Tony's Pizza while we were in San Francisco. We must bring PROOF that we did so. A photo, perhaps, and not just a photo of ourselves standing underneath the restaurant sign. A photo of ourselves with Tony's pizza hanging out of our mouths, a photo with the waiter, who will, it is to be hoped, be wearing some sort of Tony's Pizza identification on him or her, and -- ideally -- with Tony himself, showing us around his magical kitchen and teaching us how to make his wonderful pizza.

We heard vaguely of other sights in the area, such as Alcatraz, some big trees, a bridge called Golden something-or-other. Maybe we'll fit them in if we have time.