Presenter Toby Amies hooks up with genial prankster
Marc Horowitz and his partner-in-crime Jon
Brumit for a heart-stopping race down San Francisco’s
steepest and twistiest street – on a child’s plastic tricycle.
Marc and Jon conduct Toby in a 60-second symphony, before making him
coffee in the park with the help of the world’s longest extension
cord.
Social activist Nancy Hernandez takes Toby to
the city’s Latino heartland to meet street muralists and entrepreneurial
kids in a gang prevention scheme. Toby joins environmental enforcer
Sejal Choksi for a spin on the bay where they come
face-to-face with the city’s hardiest swimmers and its
laziest seals.
Toby meets man-about-town Robert Mailer Anderson,
who’s moved from welfare housing to a life of luxury on Pacific
Height’s ritziest block, Goldrush Drive. Robert scores Toby
a backstage pass and a private box at the opera before taking him
to a robotics whiz, who helps Toby confront his fear of machines.
Industrial arts guru Michael Sturtz shows Toby 101 things to do
with fire before initiating him into the extreme sport of flaming
body bowling. Michael’s friend, backyard chemist John
Lieb, shows Toby how to run your truck on oil
from your local burger joint. He then hijacks Toby for a night on the
town accomapanied by a 30-piece anarchic marching band.
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While in San Francisco, the Lonely Planet Television crew stayed at Hotel Carlton.
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