Renting Super Stretch Limos In San Francisco Is Crazy

S an Francisco is the city        Francisco hills in late April      of hills at the end of a        1968. The famous car chase         peninsula of undulating         features a Mustang \and a Dodge    topography. There are                 Charger in a wild drive on         approximately 50 hills in San         several picturesque San Francisco  Francisco. Many other streets         hills. The chase segment starts    cannot be navigated by                off, with the Charger trailing     stretch-limos. A common site is       the Mustang in Bernal Heights,     to see such a vehicle grounded,       while Russian Hill served as the   frame resting on pavement, after      base for many of the memorable     unsuccessfully trying to get off      chase scenes.                      a San Francisco hill.                                                                                          Today the comfortable and legal    Rather than face the hills, hire      way to visit these sites is have   a Quicksilver TownCar and leave       your Quicksilver TownCar           the driving to an experienced San     www.qstc.net, driver show you on   Francisco driver. Ask Quicksilver     your way San Francisco             TownCar reservation,                  International Airport.             800.468.9622, for help.                                                                                        City development prevents 360      Like Rome, San Francisco has          degree views -- at least for       seven famous hills: Telegraph         pedestrians -- from Forest Hill,   Hill, Nob Hill, Russian Hill,         Red Rock Hill and Gold Mine Hill   Rincon Hill, Mount Sutro, Twin        in Diamond Heights, and Mount      Peaks and Mount Davidson. The         Olympus. While high rise           highest of them -- Mount              buildings block the view from Nob  Davidson, is 927 feet.                Hill, Russian Hill and Pacific                                           Heights.                           The Steve McQueen movie Bullitt                                          was filmed in and around San          Microclimates: San Francisco       Hills create an area of                                                  remarkably varied geography that      Eureka Peak at 904 feet has        helps create a great number of        fantastic Vistas: This is the      microclimates. The winds in the       northern peak of Twin Peaks.       area are distributed above the        Follow Twin Peaks Boulevard to     hills and along the little            its end. This street circles both  valleys that lie in their             peaks of Twin Peaks. To the north  shadows. The terrain here creates     of Eureka Peak is the easy view    marked differences in climate         point that is enclosed by          conditions from neighborhood to       Christmas Tree Point Road. This    neighborhood or even from hill to     is an outcropping of land called   hill. There are palm trees            Christmas Tree Point.              growing in the warmth of the                                             Mission, wind sheered Monterey        Buena Vista Heights is 575 feet    Cypress along the Pacific Edge        more great views: This hill lies   and wild parakeets, made famous       within Buena Vista Park. The park  by another movie, live in the         itself is bounded by curving       trees on many hills.                  streets with Haight Street to the                                        north, Buena Vista Terrace to the  Many hillside streets dead end        east, Buena Vista Avenue East to   because the slope is too steep.       the south and Buena Vista Avenue   The street that simply ends where     West to the west. To walk to the   the hill grade is unsafe for a        summit, you can reach the entry    roadway. Another unusual hill         to the park trail at the           roadway is Russian Hill's famous      intersection of Lyon Street and    "crookedist" street, a series of      Haight Street.                     photogenic switchbacks down the                                          east facing side of the hill.         Clarendon Heights tops out at 850                                        feet: This is one of the tallest   Reaching The Top                      hills in San Francisco and the     977-foot Sutro To wer that sits       hills are also home to many        atop it is the highest point in       pranks such as the escape of ten   San Francisco. Take Dellbrook         thousand superballs rolling down   Avenue southeast off Clarendon        a San Francisco hill/street in     Avenue, then take La Avanzada         2007.                              Street east off of Dellbrook                                             Avenue, follow La Avanzada Street     After your break visiting the      to the top of the hill where you      hills, your Quicksilver driver     will find the Sutro Tower.            can have you at San Francisco                                            International airport is a half    In addition to parakeets, the         hour for your flight home.         About the Author SF Bay Area Transportation Expert As President of Quicksilver TownCar Service http://www.qstc.net Phil Macafee knows all of the freeways and most of the byways from Carmel to Sacramento to the wine country. Published At: www.Isnare.com