We are currently vacationing on the Jersey Shore this week (you know, “down the shore”), but SF Travel just published my latest about why to head to SF instead of LA for your next vacation.

Now, now, regular readers know that I don’t really get LA. We once had a native Angeleno guide us around, and that was the closest I got to enjoying a trip to LA. Otherwise, it’s just so big, so varied, so…unknowable. And I figure I’m not the only tourist to feel this way.

But ANYWAY, here’s my list of 9 reasons that SF is a better vacation spot than LA.  (And, yes, the Angelenos are already writing in with their defense.)