Not much sleep in the 24 bed dorm due to the rhythmic snoring of a few of the residents :p Had our free breakfast in the hostel of bagels and waffles then went for a walk to Fisherman's Wharf where it started drizzling with rain. Had a look round the Maritime museum and then on to Ghiradelli's chocolate factory, which I though would still be a working factory but it turned out to be mearly a shell which had been turned into posh shops and restaurants with an 'historic' walk telling you about the original use of the buildings. We did [View Full Entry]

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If you had a list of the things that made up a full, rich life, would you include a date in San Francisco under a full moon? Would the fact that it was a blind date and you would be making a special stop just for that purpose add to the romance or scare you off? I had not considered such a thing to be on my list until the opportunity presented itself. Thanks to my sister-in-law and her Jewish match-maker instincts I was presented with the opportunity during my travel down the West Coast. Scott Peck wrote that the element [View Full Entry]

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Hello everyone! Thanks very much to everyone for the lovely emails, we are sitting in an internet café/Juice Bar (Liz is having carrot, spinach, beet (!), celery and coriander, love it!) in San Francisco waiting to pick up our hire car and drive south to LA for Friday where we are catching a flight to Tahiti! Can’t believe we are leaving San Francisco already both think we should have had a few more days here, it is such an amazing city, here are some highlights.. Arrived on Monday after 10 hours on the plane from Heathrow, flew with Virgin which was [View Full Entry]

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In San Francisco we stayed with Sunita's friend Meghan in a small town about 45 minutes out of the main city called Pleasonton. It is quite a rich area, apparently the houses are normally a million plus. Meghan had another friend over (Kendra) who was a pure bred Pleasonton and we hit a local bar which had a live band and a whole lot of merry oldies dancing. For those who usually read my oddities site, it looked as though a lot of them got their moves from the video "How to dance like a white boy". The next day we [View Full Entry]

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Ok, so I am sitting on the floor at gate in SFO waiting for the United flight to take me home to SD. Please note, the above does not say business lounge. Why you ask? Well just when I thought that things couldn’t get worse, they did. I blame my sister actually. She sent me a very nice send off message and commented that after Bangalore the trip home will be a breeze…yea, Jane, it was real easy. Ok, so when I last left you I had not eaten in 14 hours, and I was waiting to board my plane in [View Full Entry]

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After escaping the island of Kauai and its $45 nachos we were psyched to get to San Francisco and check out what it had to offer. None of our traveling party (Linda, Ben, Cookie and myself) had been to San Fran before so we were all keen to explore the place with fresh eyes. Our time there was taken up primarily with doing the "tourist thing" which proved to be relatively rewarding as far as those types of experiences go. On the first morning we got up and walked from our hostel in Union Square through China Town up to Coit [View Full Entry]

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The plane trip was uneventful and boring...and LONG. I don’t remember the exact amount of time we were held captive but I’m thinking it was about 10 hours to Frankfurt where we had a couple hours lay over and then another 12 hours to San Francisco. We had a bit of a hassle at Chennai when our reserved, TWICE confirmed seats, appeared to have been given to someone else and we were reassigned to three seats separated and spread out throughout the plane. Praveen was not happy, especially after confirming them twice before we went to the airport, and especially after [View Full Entry]

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I arrived at San Francisco's Greyhound depot on the morning of 31st Dec 2005. The idea of counting down and celebrating New Year in a foreign country made me pretty excited. Also, after travelling around Western Canada/USA alone for 2 weeks, I finally had company in San Francisco. My father has a friend, Uncle Danny, who lived in San Francisco. Uncle Danny and my father worked together in Hong Kong 2 decades ago. After my family migrated to Singapore, Uncle Danny migrated to USA and settled down in San Francisco. I was very lucky to meet Uncle Danny in San Francisco [View Full Entry]

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Mon and I got married about 4 months ago. We didn't go on a honeymoon coz I was out of vacation days for 2005. So first thing in 2006, we go to San Francisco for the weekend. It was a nice change from the day-to-day of working (for me) and schooling (for her). Unfortunately, I was sick the first two days :-( This was a road trip for us. And I honestly don't mind the drive. I always pictured myself going on road trips with my wife. And we would stop to refuel at gas stations. Buy lots of chips and [View Full Entry]

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