From the Beach to Glory

From: The Great Highway to Ike’s Sandwiches

Time: 11:30 am

It’s Saturday morning. You wake up on the beach with nothing on but with your jeans and a t-shirt. Your head hurts and you check your pockets. You find 5 bucks in one pocket and find another 5 in the other pocket. You have ten dollars, what are you going to do now?

Get an Ike’s sandwich of course...

Welcome to another episode of Breesy’s Guide to San Francisco. We are gonna help you get from the cloudy location of Ocean Beach to the sunny streets of Castro/Mission/Dolores.

You are gonna find your nearest MUNI. This is either the L car or the N car and run all the way from the beach to the downtown stations. My guess is we landed near the N car because we can see the trees of the Golden Gate Park very close by. With 10 dollars in our pockets that leaves us some change for an espresso at Java Beach Cafe, one of San Francisco’s coolest little cafe’s on the West side. Enjoy the ambience of locals and the hungover college students. Wait around for about ten minutes and you will find yourself jumping on the next inbound N. I will say it is not a short ride from the beach to Market street, but if you look out your passenger window you will not be bored one bit. You will explore the neighborhoods of the Sunset, Inner Sunset, Haight and Lower Haight. Right when you pass Duboce Park in Lower Haight and before the car goes in the Market Street tunnel you are going to get out. Once you get off you should be right next to the Safeway at Market and Church.

We are close! Your stomach is growling! Walk on over to 16th street, it should only take a couple minutes. Once you are approaching Dolores street I am sure you will be able to see the Ike’s line stretching out the door and down the block. It’s okay though, we called in early. We ordered a classic, “Name of the Girl I’m Dating” is the name of the sandwich and that first bite will cure any heartbreak. Enjoy that sandwich at the local Dolores Park and screw it, grab yourself a tall can of PBR while you are there.

Hope you enjoyed another episode of Breesy’s Guide To San Francisco

JB