I came back from SFO today (yesterday actually). It was a nice trip... San Francisco is nice, but it was rainy all the time.... like last time when I was there in April, not much cold though. I was there for annual meeting of my company located in Silicon Valley (Santa Clara, San Francisco Bay Area). The meeting was nice & so was meeting all these people at work... pretty NICE!!! I like California, but somehow not as much to move there. East Coast is nicer, specially DC & NYC... feels like home in USA to me. Nice weather variation, to see all four seasons distinctly... hot summer, cold snowy winter & nice falls & spring too. It's just awesome!!
You know I had flight issues in beginning of trip (read here), but the trip overall was really great. First stop was Stanford University & Palo Alto, nice as usual but nothing special (or maybe there was something special). Had dinner in Junoon, nice Indian restaurant & all the food was really awesome. Then next in San Francisco, we saw Alcatraz Island/Prison in SFO, really interesting. They have this nice audio tour which is really nice (nice is nice... really??).One of the speaker on tour was Darwin Coon whose Book "Alcatraz: The True End of the Line", I read recently. Not a great writer but really good writing & interesting story. They have created the audio tour really well, but its just for the prison and not the whole Island. Then went back to San Francisco city & had dinner at Japanese place called Katana-ya, pretty nice place & good raman noodles & sushi too.
Next day was trip on CA-1 to 17 mile drive & Big Sur... pretty nice. Last time I drove to Santa Cruz which was one of the very nice & beautiful drive I have seen. But this was different & beautiful. Sea shore on one side & mountains on other, kinda aweosme. But we got late reaching to Big Sur & it got kinda dark, maybe need to visit next time (drive from LA). 17 mile drive is beautiful but repetitive, may be nicer in good weather when you sit somewhere & enjoy longer in place of just driving through it & not doing much except running around taking pictures etc. Can't say much about Big-Sur, I gues its nice. We did have dinner at Big Sur Bakery & Restaurant, had Duck Pizza & some fish dish with veggies. Fish dish was nice but Pizza kinda sucked. Dessert was nice, (some kinda Brouche?) & had good pistachio ice-cream. They did have a creepy restroom there though.. really creepy & back in woods. LOL... & then drive back to SFO (real SFO, the Airport). So the trip overall was awesome!!!!!!
Ok... This is old news, so the Last time for this year: HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011!!!!
