Thanksgiving in The City
https://flic.kr/p/8UykdQ, photo by Faith Goble
Thanksgiving makes a lot of Americans think of classic East Coast stuff - fall colors and threatening snow, football and pumpkin pies, turkey decorations and colorful corn. We have some of that in San Francisco but the season feels different here. There might be rain, but never snow. The hills are green and it’s usually sunny. And our eclectic mix of global cultures each interprets this classic American holiday in their own unique way. Here are five things to check out if you’re visiting San Francisco over this season.
Get into local food. Of course you will find a lot of the old standards on Thanksgiving dinner tables like around SF - but the local food scene goes well beyond green bean casseroles and yams. Northern California has unique seasonal foods like persimmons, pomegranates, fresh walnuts in the shell, blood oranges, and wild mushrooms that all reach their peak in November. The “Heart of the City” Farmer’s market in UN plaza happens right in the shadow of our stunning City Hall, and the Wednesday before Thanksgiving is especially fun.
Speaking of local food, November is also the opening of the season for our best known seafood delicacy: the Dungeness crab! The Swann Oyster Depot, Fog Harbor Fishhouse, and Scoma’s are all classic places to try Dungeness Crab in season. But San Francisco’s strong asian influence plays here too. You can check out live local crabs in the seafood markets in Chinatown, and get Cantonese inspired dishes like Salt-and-Pepper crab at restaurants like R&G Lounge and China Live.
Volunteer at a food pantry or Thanksgiving meal. The Holidays are hard for people living in poverty or experiencing homelessness, but San Francisco’s compassionate culture supports several local food drives and free Thanksgiving dinners. The most famous, at Glide Memorial Church in the Tenderloin neighborhood where 500 volunteers serve 5,000 Thanksgiving dinners. If you’re sticking around for the weekend, the world famous Glide Ensemble sings each Sunday at Glide’s services.
Visit the Alcatraz Indigenous People’s Sunrise Gathering. On Indigenous Peoples’ Day (observed federally as Columbus Day) and on Thanksgiving, indigenous people from all over the US and Canada gather at dawn to commemorate the 1969-1971 protest occupation of Alcatraz by the Indians of All Tribes. This isn’t an event for tourists. It’s an important cultural celebration and tickets are limited, but if you are interested in participating in something uniquely “UnThanksgiving” you might consider it.
Have a Thanksgiving feast - without doing the dishes. If you are visiting from elsewhere, there are plenty of places to have a traditional Thanksgiving meal without doing the cooking for yourself. You could enjoy dinner with spectacular views of the San Francisco Bay on a Thanksgiving dinner cruise. If you're looking for something beyond the traditional turkey and stuffing, you can try barbecue at International Smoke or Vietnamese at Lily.
Watch some football at the Kezar Stadium “Turkey Bowl”. Each year the biggest high-school football game is on Thanksgiving Day. You can also watch all the NFL action at one of our local sports bars. My favorite? Standard Deviant Brewing in the Mission District. It’s home of the “Coldest-Tasting Beer in San Francisco”, they do $2 hot dogs on every game day, and it’s run by some very cool people (even if some of them are Patriots’ fans).
Alcatraz Island Tours - What is there to see on Alcatraz Island?
https://flic.kr/p/2mS8tVA, photo by Bernard Spragg. NZ
Alcatraz Island is the most popular ticketed attraction of all the places to visit in San Francisco - 1.6 million people visited in 2019! It is so popular that tickets sell out several weeks in advance during the summer. (If you can’t get tickets, just check out my previous post on how to find Alcatraz Island tickets.)
But why are Alcatraz Island tours such a big deal? Why is this such a popular San Francisco tourist spot?
History. The federal prison that was on Alcatraz Island gives the place its forbidding reputation, despite being active for less than thirty years. There are also lots of other military, political, and naval sights to see.
Nature. The island is home to thousands of local and seasonal migratory birds, as well as Eucalyptus trees, agave plants, and a beautifully restored prison garden.
Views. Alcatraz is intriguing from San Francisco, but San Francisco is spectacular from Alcatraz! The ferry ride over with Alcatraz Cruises alone is worth the price of admission.
So what should you see on Alcatraz Island? When you first arrive at the ferry dock on the north side of the island, you will receive an introduction from one of the park rangers on Alcatraz. They will detail the layout of the island, the special programs happening just that day, and tell you how to get around. There are a lot of things to check out, but I always suggest starting with the cell house.
It’s about a ten minute walk up a steep ramp to get to the entrance, and there is a little tram that can drive you up if you need help. When you arrive at the top, enter the prison building and start the audio tour. You will actually enter the same way that the prisoners did. This tour is included with your Alcatraz Island ferry ticket and takes you through the whole cell house over the course of forty-five minutes. In your ear are four former prisoners and four former guards, who talk about their time on the island, the life of the prisoners, and some of the famous escape attempts. It sounds cheesy, but trust me it’s a really fun experience.
When the audio tour is over, a lot of folks just hit the gift shop and head back to the ferry landing. If you do this, you will be missing out! The following are my favorite things to see outside the cellhouse.
Special exhibits. Hopefully, you paid attention to the ranger during your introductory briefing! Be sure to check out the industries buildings, which frequently have special art exhibitions, and any outbuildings like the morgue that may be open.
https://flic.kr/p/dwamXB, photo by MK Feeney
The gardens. When the island was a military and then a civilian prison, extensive gardens were maintained by the guards, their families, and prisoners with special privileges. After being abandoned for forty years, volunteers and park staff are restoring them with beautiful results. The main gardens worth checking out are on the east side of the cell house wall, overlooking the ferry dock.
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The occupation history. From 1969 to 1971, Alcatraz was occupied in protest by early members of the American Indian movement. These protesters left extensive graffiti paintings around the exterior and interior of the cellhouse. There is also a museum in the barracks building near the ferry dock that tells the story of the occupation and the sunrise ceremonies still performed on the island on Columbus Day and Thanksgiving.
The west side of the island. The audio tour invites you to look in the rec yard, but you can also explore it. If you go out the door on the far side, you will see ahead a view of the Golden Gate Bridge that you can only get on the Rock and a stairway leading down to the rocky west side of the island. This is where you feel like you have the island to yourself, especially compared to the mad crowds in the cell house!
Finally, walk along the edge of the island to the Agave Trail. This is only open part of the year, when migratory birds are not nesting nearby, and takes you right along the edge of the water back to the ferry landing. Some of the agave plants are ten feet high and when they are in bloom they are truly spectacular.
How to Visit Muir Woods
Muir Woods is an easy half day trip out of San Francisco. Here is how to make the best of it.
San Francisco has so much to offer visitors, but there is even more to explore beyond the City. Across the Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful and accessible groves of Coastal Redwoods on the West Coast. This national monument was never logged and has been carefully preserved so you can experiences an ancient redwood forest just as the first people did when they arrived thousands of years ago. It takes some effort to visit the woods, but it’s worth it to experience trees 258 feet high and 20 feet across!
https://flic.kr/p/m7BHsi photo by Ashley Deason
Muir Woods is about a forty-five minute drive from downtown San Francisco, so it’s easy to reach from hotels in the Union Square and Fisherman’s Wharf areas. The route will take you across the Golden Gate Bridge, above the resort town of Sausalito and through the town of Mill Valley. You will then climb out of Mill Valley and over the spur of Mount Tamalpais before dropping into the valley of Muir Woods. The route starts on the multi-lane freeway of US-101 but ends with a narrow and twisting road that clings to the steep hillside as it descends to the grove. It’s a truly breathtaking drive.
https://flic.kr/p/bUzgS6 photo by Steve Baker
Before you hop in the rental and head out, there are two things to consider. First, advance reservations are required to park at Muir Woods. And I mean REQUIRED! You will be turned away if you arrive without one and you cannot purchase one there, even if there are parking spaces available, and there is nowhere else to park within a few miles of the grove. You can reserve parking in advance at www.gomuirwoods.com. This is the only way to access Muir Woods if you are driving yourself. Second, consider whether you even want to drive yourself? Renting a car is expensive - as is parking it - and San Francisco is easy to get around on foot, by public transit, and by ride share or taxi. I recommend that my tour guests skip the rental car while they are here.
If you don’t drive yourself there are several great ways to get to Muir Woods. The first is by shuttle and it’s free. The shuttle leaves from the Park and Ride lot in Sausalito and it’s free to use. You can use ride share to get to the lot or take the ferry from San Francisco and a Sausalito city bus to the meeting point. (Do not use rideshare to get to Muir Woods. They can drop you off there, but there is no cell or data signal in Muir Woods so you can’t call them back!) This is a great, free, way to get to Muir Woods, but it does make for a long day!
Another option is to take a day tour from San Francisco. All the major companies (Tower Tours, Big Bus, Extranomical) offer them. Local companies have some more interesting offers. Dylan’s Tours, for example, offers a bike rental plus Muir Woods shuttle. You rent a bicycle and ride it across the Golden Gate Bridge, then they give you a lift up into the woods and drop you back in the City. Private guides like Gary Tours or Small Car, Big Time Tours can also do private runs for family groups.
But if you really want to make a splash and have a great time, join us on the Morning in Marin! This experience includes early access to the redwoods - we are one of the first groups up in the grove each morning - and an incredible experience of Marin. After visiting Muir Woods we will check out the rugged beauty and incredible city views from the Marin Headlands or Fort Baker, then head in to Sausalito to link up with Seaplane Adventures. Enjoy a thirty minute flight over the Golden Gate Bridge, Mount Tamalpais, and the San Francisco skyline in their six-passenger DeHavilland Beaver float planes. On your return we will pop the cork on a bottle of champagne (or something celebratory and non-alcoholic if you prefer) and enjoy a picnic lunch. The experience ends with drop off in downtown Sausalito, where you can browse the art galleries and funky shops at your leisure before returning to San Francisco by ferry (tickets included).
Cheers
-Eric
Is there anything I missed about getting to Muir Woods? What is your favorite way to check out the park? Let me know at eric@fogcuttertours.com
Alcatraz is sold out? This is how to get Alcatraz Island Tickets!
Alcatraz Island is the most popular ticketed attraction in San Francisco and welcomes nearly 5,000 people every day. Pretty ironic for a place that people used to try to escape from!
Unfortunately for many visitors, it is so popular that Alcatraz Island tickets sell out for much of the year. If you are looking for Alcatraz Island tours and can’t find tickets for them, you can find some answers here! There are three ways to get to the island:
Get a ticket through Alcatraz City Cruises well in advance.
Refresh the Alcatraz City Cruises website if your day is sold out.
Get an Alcatraz City Cruises ticket packaged with a San Francisco tour.
Find an Alcatraz City Cruises ticket on a third-party website.
Do you notice the theme? The only company that runs and Alcatraz ferry service is Alcatraz City Cruises. They are the only way to get on the island and in the prison. So if you want to visit Alcatraz, the best thing to do is to book well in advance directly through the ferry company. You can book up to 90 days in advance here.
Any other website that claims to have Alcatraz Island tickets or offer Alcatraz Island tours is either packaging an Alcatraz City Cruises ticket with something else, adding a surcharge on top of an Alcatraz City Cruises ticket, selling a boat trip around Alcatraz that does not dock, or maybe just lying.
As of early 2022, the price of an adult Alcatraz Island ticket is $41. Anything that costs more than that is marked up or packaged with another tour product.
If you didn’t book in advance and there are no tickets available for the Alcatraz ferry on the day you want to visit, you can try refreshing the page at regular intervals. When tourists cancel their trips or big groups don’t use all the Alcatraz Island tickets they ordered, Alcatraz City Cruises puts the tickets right back on their website.
If you don’t want to stare at your phone all day, book a San Francisco tour and Alcatraz ticket package. Alcatraz City Cruises partners with dozens of companies, like Fogcutter Tours, that order a limited number of tickets to sell along with their regular tour products. Want to tour San Francisco in addition to doing an Alcatraz Island tour? This is the best option.
If you book my small-group city tour, you get picked up at your hotel, spend the morning visiting the Golden Gate Bridge, Twin Peaks, Haight-Ashbury, Mission, Castro, and more, drive down San Francisco’s crookedest street, grab lunch at the best sandwich spot in town and get dropped off right at the Alcatraz ferry landing at Pier 33. Your Alcatraz City Cruises ferry ticket will be waiting for you and you can spend your afternoon on the island and in the prison! Learn more or book that experience right here.
If my experience is sold out or doesn’t fit your style, I can personally recommend Dylan’s Tours’ 1 Day Alcatraz Tour, which spends less time in San Francisco but includes Sausalito and Muir Woods. I can also recommend Bay Voyager’s Touch of Gold and Alcatraz Combo, which is the absolute best boat tour of San Francisco bay. A third excellent option is Vantigo’s City Tour and Alcatraz Combo which does a cool city tour in rad, lovingly restored VW buses.
Companies like ours that partner with City Cruises must follow strict rules:
We can only order a limited number of tickets.
We cannot sell the Alcatraz ticket by itself.
We cannot mark up our tour price along with the Alcatraz ticket.
We must finalize our ticket requests ten days in advance and include the names of every passenger.
We don’t give tours on Alcatraz.
This prevents tour companies from ordering all the Alcatraz tickets and just scalping them. If a tour company or website is not playing by the above rules, then something fishy is going on…
…Speaking of fishy, Alcatraz City Cruises does not offer refunds on their tickets, so sometimes tourists that have to cancel their trips will sell their Alcatraz Island tickets on Craigslist, StubHub, etc. These websites are an option for finding tickets, but it’s hard to tell what is a legit ticket. Other websites with official sounding URLs and top ad placement on Google are just selling you a City Cruises ticket with a markup, if it’s a real ticket at all.
In summary, the Alcatraz Island tour is amazing and to make sure you can visit this spectacular island, book up to 90 days in advance. If you can’t or didn’t book in advance and Alcatraz Cruises is sold out, book a ticket package with a reputable partner company like Fogcutter Tours.
Eric’s Favorite Things to Eat in San Francisco
San Francisco is a famous food town, with more Michelin-starred restaurants per capita than anywhere else in the country. It has cheap ethnic food from all over the globe and traditional classics that have satisfied generations. It also has arguments over what is really the best of any given thing. So I will skip the hyperbole and just tell you what I think are the best things to eat in San Francisco. These are things to add to your list when you are planning a visit to SF, and food is such an important part of the culture here that I always include a food stop on my tours.
1. Mission Style “Super” Burrito: Two places (Taqueria La Cumbre and El Faro) both claim to have served these monstrous “slabs” since the 1960s. In each case, the origin story is the same. Recent immigrants from Mexico wanted to introduce their food to White San Francisco residents unfamiliar with it. So they rolled combo meals of rice, beans, grilled meat, salsas and more into giant tortillas to imitate the American deli sandwich. Fast-forward two generations and the “cylindrical god” feeds starving artists and D.C. data nerds alike. My favorite is the barbacoa “baby” burrito with black beans from La Corneta in my neighborhood of Glen Par. It’s a popular place to stop for lunch on tour - these burritos keep you going to Alcatraz and beyond. You can watch me and Chad Thompson from Vantigo talk about our favorite burritos in SF here.
https://flic.kr/p/8kSkZs, photo by Omid Tavallai
2. “It’s It” Ice Cream Sandwiches: I’ve been eating these since I was a toddler. In fact, “It’s It” has been around so long, my grandmother ate these as a toddler! Two oatmeal cookies sandwich one of four flavors of ice cream and then the whole thing gets dipped in chocolate. You can find them in any corner store in town and they’re the best on hot days! Fortunately they are great on foggy days too, because we have more of those…
https://flic.kr/p/5BEJAd, photo by Navin Rajagopalan
3. Xiao Long Bao: Dim Sum is a style of food that comes from Hong Kong and southern China comprising dozens of small plates of dumplings, rolls, and more. You can enjoy dim sum at a leisurely, elegant sit down lunch at Yank Sing OR a quick grab and eat on the run at Good Mon Kok Bakery in Chinatown. Everyone has their favorite dish, and mine is Xiao Long Bao - these are steamed pork dumplings with fragrant hot soup INSIDE the wrapper!
https://flic.kr/p/2fiyHtk, photo by Dale Cruse
4. Sourdough Bread: I’m sure you’ve heard of the sourdough bread bowl with the clam chowder in it at Boudin Bakery, and it’s great, but there is so much more to it than that! Try the sourdough crust pizzas at the worker-owned collective Arizmendi Bakery or the solid country loaves at Tartine.
https://flic.kr/p/tNKYJp, photo by Sharon Hahn Darlin
5. Sand Dabs: Like I just mentioned, everyone knows the clam chowder. Many even know the Dungeness crab or the mighty cioppino, but far fewer are familiar with the humble Sand Dab. These are delicate fish, relatives of the flounder, that come from just outside San Francisco bay in the summer. They aren’t always available, but you will find them on specials menus all over town. They are amazing grilled or sauteed and served with lemon, butter, and plenty of Anchor Steam beer.
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6. Mission Bacon Dog: If you walk down Mission Street in the early evening, eventually you will smell these cooking up at little unpermitted carts on every block. Cheap hot dogs, wrapped in bacon and grilled with onions and jalapenos on a portable griddle. Hand over a few dollars and you get one stuffed into a bun with a squeeze of mayo on top. It’s a border town classic that has been around the Mission as long as I can remember. Some brave vendors are even venturing as far as the Embarcadero these days. I’ll be honest, I can’t think of the last time I had one of these sober, but they’ve been there when I needed them more times than I can count!
https://flic.kr/p/jo7KNZ, photo by Adam Dachis
7. Chocolate: You’ve heard of Ghirardelli, and they’re great, but the company is owned by Lindt and the chocolate hasn’t been made in the City since the 60s. Craft chocolate lovers know to seek out local brands like Dandelion, Charles Chocolates, or Nosh This.
https://flic.kr/p/dKvtJX, photo by Ray Bouknight
8. Dutch Crunch: Is it weird to mention two breads in one list? Enjoy crusty sourdough with your chowder, but when you order a sandwich avoid it. Locals know that Dutch Crunch is the right roll. Soft, chewy and slightly sweet with a crispy coating on top - it makes the best roll for a deli sandwich. Make mine a “1906 the Quake” from Gus’s Market. This sandwich loaded with spicy italian cold cuts with pickles and chili mayo is a favorite of my tour guests.
Eric’s Favorite Offbeat Things To Do in San Francisco
A lot of the things I like to do in my time off are the same things that I share with my tour guests! Here are ten of my favorite things to do here that you might enjoy too. They are all a little “offbeat”, just like me, and several of these places are included on my Fogcutter Small-Group San Francisco City Tour.
My guests often ask me what I like to do when I’m not leading tours around San Francisco. The truth is, a lot of the things I like to do in my time off are the same things that I share with my tour guests! Here are ten of my favorite things to do here that you might enjoy too. They are all a little “offbeat”, just like me, and several of these places are included on my Fogcutter Small-Group San Francisco City Tour.
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1. Have a tiki cocktail. Fogcutter Tours was inspired by the Samoan Fogcutter, a cocktail invented by Vic Bergeron at Trader Vic’s right here in San Francisco. It’s exactly what you need to bring the sunny vibes and get stoked for adventure on a foggy San Francisco day. The oldest of the old school places is the Tonga Room in the Fairmont Hotel. They have a volcano at the host stand, tall ship rigging over the dance floor, thatched roofs over the bar tables AND a band playing on a floating island in the middle of the restaurant! My favorite of the new wave places is Pagan Idol. They have dozens of rums, the drinks aren’t too sweet, and the staff boasts a bottomless wardrobe of Aloha shirts.
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2. Ride the Bus. Visitors should ride the Cable Car once (it was invented in San Francisco!) Rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft are super easy to use (they were also invented here!) But the local bus and streetcar system (called “Muni” by locals) will get you anywhere in town you need to go AND let you see the city while you do it. To make things easy and cost-effective, get a multi-day bus pass. Another quick note: do not rent a car to drive around town. You will spend way more time and money on parking than you ever thought possible, and it will stress you out big time.
https://flic.kr/p/mjvBXi, photo by Eric Astrauskas
3. Drive down a crooked street. San Francisco has two of them! Lombard Street is right above Fisherman’s Wharf with beautiful views of the Bay, Alcatraz, and more. Vermont Street is a lot less scenic and a lot more out of the way, but it’s also the real “crookedest”. I sometimes take a detour when I am running errands, just so I can zip down this snaky street on Potrero Hill. On Easter Sunday, local thrill seekers even ride toy tricycles down Vermont street. I also frequently drive guests on my small-group city tour down Vermont Street on the way to the Mission District. It’s a tight squeeze, but it’s fun!
https://flic.kr/p/9navm, photo by John Weiss
4. Find “secret” views. Twin Peaks has the hands down best downtown skyline view in the City, and whenever the weather is clear I take my tour guests there. But one of the joys of exploring San Francisco is finding stunning views when you least expect them, and there are dozens of different peaks and parks that have amazing views of the skyline, the sunset and more. I especially like Jack Early Park above Fisherman’s Wharf, Tank Hill above the Haight, and Grandview Park in the Sunset.
https://flic.kr/p/4BpZQF, photo by rick
5. And to get to some of these parks, I prefer to walk up “secret” stairways! There are 48 hills in San Francisco, and there are 670 staircase streets to climb them. The longest of them, with 450 steps, and the most famous is the section of Filbert Street that runs from Sansome Street near the Alcatraz ferry up to Coit Tower. My neighborhood in Bernal Heights has the most stairways of any neighborhood. On tours, I frequently take guests to see the spectacular 16th Ave Tiled Steps. This stairway climbs the west side of Turtle hill and each step is decorated with mosaic tiles on its front face. Look at the stairs from the top and it looks like nothing special, but climb the stairway from the bottom and you will see a swirl of fish and sea creatures the whole way up. Mirrors embedded in the stairs reflect the flash of the sunset too.
https://flic.kr/p/2kUq14G, photo by vhines200
6. Roam the Sutro Baths. Imagine Roman ruins in a major American city, overlooking the mighty Pacific Ocean! When Adolph Sutro built the bath house named in his honor it could fit 10,000 people into its seven swimming pools under a glass roof AND it hosted restaurants, museums and a small zoo. It fell into disrepair and then burned in the 1960s and these days the ruins are open to the public. You can climb around the old foundations and even venture into a spooky tunnel that partially fills at high tide.
https://flic.kr/p/pMneCW, photo by Karlis Dambrans
7. Walk the alleys of Chinatown. I frequently take my tour guests to the Fortune Cookie Factory on Ross Alley - they make 10,000 cookies there every day, each one folded by hand. Whenever I am in Chinatown I like to take short cuts down the dozen alleys that run through the neighborhood. You can get away from the crowds on Stockton and Grant Street and find little hole-in-the-wall restaurants, art galleries, Taoist Temples and even a infamous crime scene.
https://flic.kr/p/dngZ1V, photo by Franco Folini
8. Experience the playful side of the City’s topography at one of our outdoor slide parks. San Francisco has lots of parks and playgrounds to enjoy, and several of them take advantage of the city’s natural terrain by building slides into the side of a hill! I love to take guests with kids to the Seward Street Slides (the original and best) but you can also find slides at Esmeralda Street in my neighborhood of Bernal Heights.
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9. Get off of Jefferson Street at Fisherman’s Wharf. A lot of locals avoid Fisherman’s Wharf, but I don’t! I am a member of the Dolphin Swim Club (not open to the public, sadly) and I try to get down there once per week. The endless rows of t-shirt shops and cheap souvenirs really aren’t my thing, but it doesn’t take much to ditch the crowds. After a swim I love the happy hour menu at Cappurro’s. I also like to drop in to the exhibition galleries at the Academy of Art University in the Cannery, and play the vintage video games at the Musee Mechanique.
https://flic.kr/p/5akFtG, photo by Steve
10. Ride a bike! You might not think a city with 48 hills was a great place to cycle, but there are several awesome rides that work around the hills rather than going over them. I ride for fun most weekends and run errands by bike. For fun rides, I often join the tourists riding along the Marina Green and across the Golden Gate Bridge to Sausalito, but on the way I like to stop at the Wave Organ. It’s an art piece made of old cemetery headstones that makes weird burps, gurgles, and hoots at high tide. Sounds strange when I write it that way, but trust me it’s worth a quick detour if you’re “biking the bridge” anyway.
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It all begins with an idea.
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Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.
Be clear, be confident and don’t overthink it. The beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.
Blog Post Title Four
It all begins with an idea.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.
Be clear, be confident and don’t overthink it. The beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.