Frisco Highlights

Okay, so last week, Sara and I got the opportunity to go to San Francisco for a few days. It was my first ever trip to Cali, which has been a dream of mine since childhood (birthplace of skateboarding, duh), and we really had a great time. I seriously want to move there...kind of hoping some kind of job offer in that region will come along. I'm only about 49.5% serious.

If you care to see, here's a pictorial recap of our trip:

On Thursday, we flew there. I spent most of the flight working on my powerpoint for the workshop I was doing the next day (aka our legitimate excuse for going to Cali). After both of our laptop batteries died, I did a crossword puzzle. Those things are kind of annoying.



After landing, we got our rental car (less than $20/day via hotwire.com), and we decided not to waste the few hours of daylight that were left going to settle in at our hotel. Oh yeah, and it was 60 some degrees, and there were mountains everywhere you looked. We wanted to get out and explore right away. So we did.

I really wanted to get to the coast, so we made a b-line north. Sara took a lot of random pictures along the way. We were both pretty excited to be there.














We ended up at Ocean Beach, took off our shoes, rolled up our jeans, and walked around. Other than the scenery, highlights included finding sand dollars (turns out they're not actual currency, so that was disappointing) and sitting on the sand, watching the sun set over the Pacific.

From there, we tried to find Fisherman's Wharf for dinner, and thought we found it...didn't bother to ask anybody if we were right...but we later found out it was Pier 39, which has a pretty similar flavor to Chicago's Navy Pier. At this point, we were tired and hungry, so we decided to just go ahead and eat there anyway. Before we settled on a restaurant, we got a few tiny doughnuts because we were hungry.

Okay, so I'm realizing what a pain in the butt it is to add pics as I go, so I'm going to wrap up day 1 of the trip here, by saying that we stayed at the Sofitel our first night b/c it was near the site of the conference I was attending the next day, and can I just say that it was super expensive, and super crappy. I just hate how fancy hotels are so stingy with everything, but I digress.

I'm just going to post some of my favorite pics from the following days in a separate post. You can make up your own words to go along with them because I'm tired of typing.