if you're going to San Francisco

"A conditional sentence is a sentence in a natural language that expresses that one thing is contingent on another, e.g., "If it rains, the picnic will be cancelled." They are so called because the impact of the sentence’s main clause is conditional on a subordinate clause. A full conditional thus contains two clauses: the subordinate clause, called the antecedent (or protasis or if-clause), which expresses the condition, and the main clause, called the consequent (or apodosis or then-clause) expressing the result.

"To form conditional sentences, languages use a variety of grammatical forms and constructions. The forms of verbs used in the antecedent and consequent are often subject to particular rules as regards their tense, aspect, and mood. Many languages have a specialized type of verb form called the conditional mood – broadly equivalent in meaning to the English "would (do something)" – for use in some types of conditional sentences."

Probably never expected Conditional sentence - Wikipedia to see two whole paragraphs in the form of a Wiki post for a blog entry. I don't consider the Scott McKenzie song lyric to follow the rule of the conditional sentence. There is no impact upon the flowers in one's hair based on whether or not hs/__/they/she goes to San Francisco. It's not like saying, "If you're going to San Francisco, you might photograph yourself on the corner of Haight and Ashbury streets." In that sentence, you'd have to be in San Francisco to do it (unless you were using artificial intelligence or photo shop).

I go to San Francisco frequently. I refer to it as my second hometown. I also manage to always do something or see something that I had not done or seen before. It's pretty amazing considering how small the city is.

The sad thing that I have come to realize about San Francisco is just how many food deserts there are. If you live in a place that has hills everywhere you walk and the distance that is not conducive to cover for a few items. I looked at it on the map and found that it was only 0.7 or 0.8 miles one way from my friend's flat to the local SAFEWAY. What the map doesn't indicate, though, is that the streets could be at an incline that is > 45° or that the streets have no sidewalks.

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