I think your missing an important detail here. She didn't say she wanted to go to San Francisco. "she was told that she couldn't remain where she was and was a

I think your missing an important detail here. She didn't say she wanted to go to San Francisco. "she was told that she couldn't remain where she was and was asked where she would go if she could go anywhere other than Menlo Park. She said she recalled that at Ocean Beach there was someplace to wash her hair, so she said she'd go there." Turning that into "She wanted to go to San Francisco" is disingenuous.