Im not going to wait until San Francisco.... Im going to start a new sour dough starter tonight! Thanks for the inspiration! Its been 4 or 5 years since I last had a SD starter.
That's great!!! Can't wait to see some of your baked goods.
A little known fact of sour dough is that ALL sour dough starters are local. So while you could begin with a starter from SF (or any other of the many heirloom starters out there) after a while, your local flora will overtake that from your SF starter resulting in a starter exactly the same as if you started it yourself where you live (that's a lot of starts in the same sentence, sorry about that.)