As for tours, Sightseeing World offers an all day tour into Napa and Sonoma. You will visit 3 to 4 wineries in one or the other, or depending on the driver, both. The tour begins in San Francisco at Fisherman's Wharf, travels through the Marina District and the Presidio before crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. You will visit both a mass production winery and a small boutique winery. Some of the common stops on this trip are Cline, Homewood, Larson, Kirkland Ranch Winery, Bouchaine, and Viansa Winery & Italian Marketplace. Special requests are sometimes honored, so if you have a favorite, it never hurts to ask. This tour runs about $59 but does not include lunch, wine tasting fees (where applicable) or the driver's gratuity(optional).
Wine Country Tour Shuttle offers not only the tour, but a picnic lunch and ferry ride
back to San Francisco. It is a 9 hour tour that loads at 8:30 a.m. at the Ferry Building. You will visit 4 Napa Valley wineries, Domaine Chandon (sparkling wine), V. Sattui, Andretti Winery, and Rutherford Ranch Winery. After tasting the Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot at V. Sattui, you will walk downstairs to the deli and order your lunch, which includes cheese, sausage, olives, meat or vegetarian sandwiches. But the highlight of the tour is your 50 minute ferry trip back to San Francisco during sunset. Great photo shots on this return trip. You will be close to Alcatraz, the Bay Bridge, the city and of course, sunset behind the Golden Gate Bridge. This tours runs $95. http://www.winecountrytourshuttle.com/
A tour that San Francisco Shuttle Tours offers is the Muir Woods Shuttle Tour. This tour boards at 1:00 p.m. each day at the Ferry Building and your return is also aboard the Blue & Gold Fleet. You visit the Marin Headlands, Muir Woods, Muir Beach Overlook, and Tiburon. What, you are asking, are the Muir Woods? They are giant coastal redwoods. No tour guiding is allowed in the woods, where you will follow peaceful paths into the forest. You may see otter, egrets or even a spotted owl. This tour comes with a separate Tour Guide from the Driver. That way you can ask questions before and after your Muir Woods tour. You will stop at the Muir Beach Overlook and then on to the town of Tiburon for shopping. This package is $60 and concludes at 5:25 pm on Mon - Fri, 6:45 p.m. on Sat & Sun.
You can add the above Muir Woods tour with a San Francisco city tour and make it an all day outing. Included in the San Francisco city tour are: Chinatown (guided walk), Lombard Street (new guided walk), Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, Alamo Square Park "7 Sisters", Golden Gate Park, Japanese Tea Garden, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate Bridge, and Sausalito (lunch, shopping & Exploring). After lunch you pick up the Muir Woods Shuttle and continue on with the tour described above. This starts at 9:00 a.m. and concludes in the evening. Cost is around $115. http://www.sanfranshuttletours.com/
If you want to travel a little further, you could grab a tour out to Yosemite National Park, where you can see the tallest waterfall in North America, Yosemite Falls. And no, thi
s park was not named after Yosemite Sam, twas the other way around, you varmit. Your tour begins at 6:15 a.m. and you will travel through cattle and horse ranching lands into the Sierra Nevadas. Your package includes a 90 minute narrated tour of Yosemite, exploring the park on your own for 3 hours, see El Capitan, Inspiration Point and enjoy nature. Cost is around $130, lunch is not included. http://www.allsanfranciscotours.com/That's all for now. Tomorrow we will board the train for Vancouver.
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