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Big Sur is awesome, but ~3 hours away by car. Yosemite is also reasonable weekend trip from SF, maybe ~4 hours away. Preferably plan to spend at least two days, and camp in the park, in either case; there's at lot to see/do and that's a lot of driving to only stay for a short time. Muir Woods (which is under an hour away), Point Lobos...there's a lot of really beautiful stuff within a day trip of SF. I'd buy a tent, and plan to spend the night out for some of these, since most of the really good spots are at least a couple hours away. That said, one could easily spend a week (month) on SF and Bay Area city exploration. There's a train that connects SF with the entirety of the rest of the bay area, so you don't even need a car to visit Mountain View (Computer History Museum is a must see!, though you'd want to catch a bus or Uber from the station to the museum, as it'd be a longish walk), Palo Alto (Stanford, Facebook, etc.), and several others along the CalTrain route. Given how little time you have, I'd probably recommend you focus on minimizing travel time, and hit on stuff that's really close. That limits your "natural wonders" options, but there's a lot of really cool stuff made by people in recent history that's also worth seeing. SF is one of America's great cities. |