If I were to describe San Francisco in a sentence it would be " The New York of the West Coast". It would be as if you took the city of New York, shrunk it, made it less crowded (with the exception for China Town), and added the West Coast way of doing things. A bit more laid back.

We rented bikes the second day and biked all the way to golden Gate bridge. It took a bit longer than expected mostly because we kept stopping every 5 minutes to take photos. I've made it a habit to tell people to rent a bike every time they travel to a large city because biking in a city is the best thing ever!