By Erin Blythe Sanders, Search Analyst.

As an original contributor to The San Francisco Examiner and a man with a storied past, Ambrose Bierce had this to say about San Franciscco:

‘Careful now.
We’re dealing here with a myth.
This city is a point upon a map of fog;
Lemuria in a city unknown.
Like us,
It doesn’t quite exist.’

Writers have often equated San Francisco to Shangri-La, denoting it as a mythical place where reality is all in the eye of the beholder. On a day like today - foggy, cool and quiet - Bierce’s words ring even more true.