Forget the “flowers in your hair” and spend that money on life insurance. Anyone foolish enough to be a tourist in that city needs to be ready to be robbed or get killed. It used to be that you couldn’t go near Haight and Ashbury streets without being mobbed by long-haired skinny drug addicts for “spare change”, but those were the good old days.
Now, anyone leaving anything inside a locked, parked vehicle gets their stuff stolen in a flash and trying to stop the thieves can get you killed. So far it’s mostly smash and grab but it’s steadily getting more violent. This is a common crime, the city is literally filled with violent thieves and is no place to go look at anymore.
Go view the Grand Canyon, check out Niagara Falls, visit Death Valley in the winter, but stay the hell out of our cities if you don’t want to become a victim statistic.