The Outer Sunset: the foggy avenues to Ocean Beach
The end of the N-Judah, the cafés on Judah, and the cold sweep of Ocean Beach. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Judah Street, the avenues
Pick up the N-Judah out where the numbered avenues run flat and foggy to the sea. Walk the line west; the houses are plain and the light is grey, and that's the Sunset being itself rather than apologising for it.

2. The cafés along Judah
The last stretch of Judah, around 45th and 46th, is where the surf-side café row has settled — coffee, pastries, board wax in the same blocks. Stop at whichever has the queue; the locals get this right.

3. Java Beach Café
The end-of-the-line café where the N-Judah finally stops, a few steps from the sand. Surfers, dogs, and a cup against the wind. You don't have to go in, but a hot drink before the beach is the correct order of operations.

4. Ocean Beach
Out across the Great Highway: three miles of open Pacific, almost always cold, often half-swallowed in fog. Walk down to the firm sand and turn whichever way the wind allows. The water is for looking at, not for swimming.

5. The Great Highway promenade
The old coast road, now given over to walkers and cyclists on its car-free stretch. Head north along it for the dunes and the long flat line of the horizon. Pelicans, usually, if you watch.

6. La Playa & the loop back
Cut back inland a block to La Playa, where the N-Judah turns around to go back downtown. Time the return for the late afternoon, when the fog sometimes lifts off the water and the whole avenue goes gold for ten minutes.

The Outer Sunset: the foggy avenues to Ocean Beach