My trip to San Francisco was absolutely incredible :) I did not want to leave! Macworld was pretty sweet. We got our hands on the Macbook Air and it really is a sweet machine. Unbelievably light, fairly nice amount of screen real estate for such a tiny little thing. The keyboard is definitely something I could get used to. As always Apple seems to have hit the mark when it comes to design. The biggest thing missing would be the ability to burn cd/dvd and we have other machines in the house that could deal with that since most of my media get put onto iPhones or iPods anyway. I was really impressed with some of the third party vendors. If my screen on my iPhone didn't already have a tiny divot/scratch I'd have loved some of the new cases they came out with there.
San Francisco was easy to fall in love with. The weather wasn't all that warm, though copmpared to what I came home to it kicked ass. ;) You definitely need a coat or heavy sweater at night, but the days were really nice. We had no rain while I was there, and the fog was minimal, though you can see it in some of the photos.
Lots and lots of
pictures from the main touristy type places like Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf and the food was excellent. We hit up all sorts of Italian in Little Italy, Hunan in Chinatown where I even liked the Sweet & Sour sauce on the chicken, and pizza- both New York and SF style that were really good. The time change was easily adjusted to (well, it made t so I wanted to go to bed at a "normal" hour around midnight instead of 3am back east.
We managed to head down to Cupertino to the Apple campus there, but the store was closed when we went so we just sort of walked around and explored a bit before heading back up the highway. The countryside there is breathtakingly beautiful even driving around the highways. I got to hang out with a really great guy who works for Apple professional support and we talked geek all weekend, something I haven't gotten to do with anyone in so long! We saw Lombard Street and Coit tower and the place we were staying with his friend who works at Expedia was walking distance to just about anything we'd want to see or eat. The Golden Gate bridge wasn't too scary to drive over, though we didn't go over the Bay bridge, but had a beautiful view from many different vantage points.
I was so glad to have the Canon with me! Thanks to Justin for lending it out so I could capture so many memories. I will definitely go back again! Many thanks to the hospitality of my friend D and his buddy N! Thanks for taking me in for the weekend and showing me the hot spots! I miss you guys! :)
