Globetrotter: San Francisco
Information on hotels, restaurants, shopping, and what to do with free time.

San Francisco's lush back yard
Marin County is not your ordinary suburb. Mountains, ocean and dark primordial woods mix with citizens' penchant for hot tubs, surfing and drive-up espresso stands

San Francisco's soul survivor
Haight-Ashbury remains true to its bohemian roots while balancing trendy eateries and working-class churches

SLEEPOVER: HOTEL PALOMAR, SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO -- In European cities, it is not uncommon to find hotels beginning on the sixth, ninth or even 15th floor of a building.

SLEEPOVER: CLIFT, SAN FRANCISCO
San Francisco is not a city that lacks luxury lodgings. But none of them -- the Sir Francis Drake, Ritz-Carlton and Pan Pacific, to name but a few -- carries the cachet and prestige of the recently revived Clift hotel.