The Amazing Race:  San Francisco

Meet-up Time & Location

10:00 am, Portsmouth Square, SF -- On the Bridge to the Chinese Cultural Center.

Starting Point Goals

Locate as many of the following items/locations as you can. So The Operator can track your progress, make sure to use the Flickr iPhone app to post a photo that includes at least one of your teammates and the item/location in the shot.  If the clue has a question in it, type the answer in your photo's title or comment field.

• Before you leave Portsmouth Square, take a picture of your team doing its best interpretation of 太極拳 in the park.
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• She resembles someone who embodies, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to be free."

Suggested Time Limit for this Leg of the Race

It is recommended that you complete this leg of the race in 10 minutes or less.

Map of Portsmouth Square, San Francisco, Ca

About the Starting Point

The Starting Point will be Portsmouth Square, located in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Portsmouth Square is located on the site of the first public square established in the early 1800s in the Mexican community of Yerba Buena, whose name was changed to San Francisco in 1847. During the Mexican-American War, when the Americans were bent on acquiring Alta California, Captain John Berrien Montgomery of the USS Portsmouth was ordered to seize Yerba Buena.

On July 9, 1846, the first American flag was raised near the Mexican adobe custom house in the plaza that would eventually be named Portsmouth Square in honor of the ship.

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