My Bare Travel

If there is one place in America which allows you to break away from the monotony of your workplace and allows you to let your hair down and enjoy the sun in your birth suit during lunch time, it is undoubtedly San Francisco. You may take a drive down to the Civic Center until Geary Boulevard ends and then cover the mall distance by walk to savor the city’s secret hot spot: A tiny sandy and rocky beach coupled with the scenic beauty–the Bay Area. On sunny days, too, the number of visitors does not exceed 10.

Now, if you do not complain and keep your hands to yourselves, a section of Golden Gate National Recreation lets you go with or without clothes. You can see rangers on foot or astride a horse. Do not indulge in intercourse on the sands or in bushes because it is illegal.

Go on the Geary Boulevard till the end. You may park your vehicle a little away from Cliff House, on the road. Start following the trail on the opposite end. Go past garbage bins and a sitting for a small distance. The path converges and goes down and up and then down again, until you face a broad road. Avoid taking a right turn that takes you to the golf course. Instead, pass another bench when the trail goes right. Here, take a left turn in the direction of dead shrubs until you spot a flight of stairs and a post stating all dogs are required to be on a leash. Go down the steps and take a left turn to one more flight of stairs that takes you to a cove after you have covered a distance of about 100 ft. Otherwise, follow the side road starting at the El Camino del Mar parking area for about a quarter of a mile, up until you have come across a bench. Stay on this trail, from here, which is indistinct at certain places. You may need to trek on the rocks towards the end!

Begin at the trail’s stopping point and go west only until you spot beautiful sunbathing recesses. According to Joseph Friday who is a regular visitor, you have some rocks on which you can bask in the warm sun or some sandy spots, a little farther from the point of entry to the beach. You may use your own or local preventive measures to save yourself from unexpected winds. When it is peak summer, the quarter mile lone cove attracts around 30 visitors; however, in the year’s earlier months, a visitor could spot six undressed men, basking on the beach’s sands. Number of visitors differ on any given day. For instance, sometimes there is a mixture of people who are attracted to their opposite gender, while other days only people attracted to their own gender are there.

The walk is pretty long, frequented by inspecting rangers. Using drugs or having intercourse in the open is not permitted. Swimming is prohibited too. Other paths than the main path are risky, could be barred or contain poison oak.