When I awake, I can see through eucalyptus and palms and over red-tiled roofs a wedge of the Pacific Ocean. “Last edge of the U.S. of A.,” I think. I like my house perched on the last moment of the American West. A little ship floats across the window and I board it for a moment, imagining all the unknown worlds west of here.—Frances Mayes, author and resident

Discover San Francisco through the eyes of writer George Leonard in the October 1999 issue of TRAVELER.

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