Please note: Check-in times begin 15 minutes before the designated start-time for each respective tour.
All attendees must have reservations for date of tour. No drop-ins.
Be courteous to your guide and fellow tour attendees by arriving on time for your tour and by letting Monika know if you can’t make the tour.
Tour #1: Saturdays: May 25 and June 29. Sundays: June 9 and 16.
Additional days/dates available upon request for groups (min 6).
Tour #2: Thursdays, May 30, June 13. ||| Tour #3: By arrangement (min 4).
Book now using the Brown Paper Tickets link on this site. For cash purchases, gift-certificate and other certificate redemptions, you must contact Monika directly at monika@sanfranciscojourneys.com.
Reservations must be made by e-mail and must include the booking #.
Advice for visiting San Francisco: Be open-minded and have a sense of humor!
May travel quote:
“The trips that change our lives are the ones where nothing specific happens, and one can remember, 27 years later, every day.” – Pico Iyer; American author of many books, from the essay “The Trip That Changed My Life,” at Gadling.
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The Walking ToursTour #1: The Grand Tour of San Francisco – Part 1The Downtown/Mid-City Journey Not the average sightseeing tour but rather an opportunity to experience San Francisco from a different perspective. Join Monika for an eclectic walking/riding (public transport) tour tracing San Francisco’s transition from an 18th century pueblo to the booming 19th century mining town leading to its becoming the Queen City of the West and finally emerging as the modern metropolis of the 21st century . . . |
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Tour #2: The Grand Tour of San Francisco – Part 2The Northern Waterfront Journey: Telegraph Hill to the Ferry Building Explore Loma Alta, the “high hill,” and discover its origins and transitions with Monika, your guide for this memorable journey. Visit the landmark structure that crowns Telegraph Hill. View and learn about the magnificent murals in Coit Tower . . . |
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Tour #3: The “Great White Way” of Market StreetMovie Palace Nostalgia More than 20 movie theatres once lined this stretch of Market and for decades brilliantly illuminated seven contiguous blocks of San Francisco’s main street. Accompany Monika on a nostalgic journey along mid-Market and hear about its grand movie palaces and the dynamics which caused their demise or survival . . . |
About Your Guide
Monika Trobits is a street-wise, native New Yorker and a long-time San Francisco resident of more than three decades. Within a few years of arriving in Northern California, she began her on-going, formal and informal study of San Francisco’s and California’s history, architecture, politics, art, unique features and culturally-diverse neighborhoods. Doing all of that inspired her to seek opportunities to become a walking tour docent and tour guide so that she could lead tours of her adopted city for anyone who would show up and listen. She’s been successfully doing that since 1989. Her presentations are engaging, comprehensive, witty and historically accurate. She leads visitors and residents alike on enjoyable and insightful journeys through San Francisco’s districts. Learn More
