Just been giving this some thought for the end of the year. We have decided to take a month away in the 'fall' - prob mid October to mid November. I have started looking at holiday homes etc. to get a feel for the place. I have been in San Francisco before and stayed in Pescadero south of there as well as Yosemite. We prob will start out in Mexico for a week and then travel to SF. Thinking of staying at 3/4 places for a week each. We will include maybe 4/5 days in SF itself. Other than that nice countryside places. Want to see and enjoy wildlife and walks - a little town/village for eating out is always nice but a remote week within the four would be great.

So - just thought that the amount of knowledge about this sort of thing on this site will prob be high. Plenty of folk will either live in the area or know it intimately. Anyone got any 'must stay' places? Any links to great holiday homes would be super. We would intend just to book homes directly with owners and then hire a car when we need. Prob do a couple of internal flights if necessary.

cheers
Stephen