San Francisco Sightseeing Articles

A Mundane Journeys bus tour is a lot like other bus tours. First of all, there's the bus -- a modern machine with dyed windows, small blue ended, bathroom in the rear, velour blue-and-gray upholstery and a retractable foot break. There is a tour guide, Mundane Journeys creator Kate Pocrass, with a name tag. There is a schedule, there are selected meeting spots, little maps, people with cameras, people with backpacks, clusters of friends and couples and much preventative giggling.

But there will be no trips to the Golden Gate Bridge, no stops at the "historic" intersection of Haight and Ashbury. Mundane Journeys -- which started in 2001 as a weekly hotline people could call for quirky suggestions on places to visit in San Francisco and has since sprouted a Web site and a book -- is as much an art project as a town guide.