One of my goals during my two and a half week trip was to venture north to experience San Francisco, a city that had always been close to the top of my visiting wish list for what seemed like forever. I had planned to make the journey alone but as luck would have it Phil had a business meeting scheduled there for Friday afternoon and so consequently, at 6.45am, we bid adios to Jon and a snoring Moose and headed to Orange County Airport, half an hour's drive south to catch the one hour flight to 'Frisco and by 11.30 were supping coffee in the downtown SF offices of Faithfull and Gould, Phil's current and my prospective employers. After meeting some of Pip's colleagues, sampling their coffee and raiding the boiled sweet jar on reception which
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