Jamestown Wired travel Ga. It rains, it's gray, the steep hills are a sure cause of shinsplints. Well, maybe it's a combination of the architecture, food, art and sheer beauty of the landscape. The city is known for cuisine-defining restaurants, exquisite views and genuinely nice people. The rain pelts down at a rate of 19.33 miserable gray inches per year.
Homeless people approach every few minutes, panhandling for change.
And the steep streets are a recipe for instant shinsplints. Cuisine-defining restaurants, picturesque topography and genuinely nice people certainly factor in. Like Paris, San Francisco is a city where couples kiss easily, unashamedly, as they sip cocktails in clubs overlooking the city's misty heights or gaze out at Golden Gate Bridge. They wander hand in hand through Golden Gate Park and cuddle on boat tours of the bay. They dance together to big-band sounds on swing nights, sip exquisite glasses of wine over finely crafted meals and sequester themselves at cozy boutique hotels.