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January 11, 2003

Back home

Got back yesterday from a week in California, Silicon Valley to be particular.

It was some training at the giant home campus of my company.

This was the first time I had ever been anywhere in California. (Yes, I don't get out that much).

My reactions:

1) Great food, and I only went to San Francisco one night
2) The weather was mostly very nice -- close to perfect temperatures by my standards (high 60's most of the time), and sun most of the week. It poured on Thursday, which also unfortunately was the evening I went to SF.
3) Chinatown was great, want to go back there
4) I crossed the Golden Gate Bridge and drove around a lot. I'm sure the views were beautiful from lots of places I was, but I most of the time I couldn't see much, being as it was night and pouring rain. More places I must see again.
5) I think I would like to live in San Francisco. I'm not sure about Silicon Valley - some nice towns but not a lot of soul, or something. I probably can't afford to live there, any more than I can afford to live where I do now.
6) California comes close, but can't beat, Massachusetts for lack of good direction signs
7) Air travel really sucks. Having to fly with a connection (Chicago going out, St. Louis coming back) to cut costs makes it really an all-day trip (unless you do the red-eye coming back, which would have just left me totally useless anyway).
8) I missed my home

But being back home I am now rather down - maybe it is jet lag, but I am hardly motivated to do much of anything today.

I also don't have any decent photos - the Chinatown ones are just so-so, and the valley is pretty hard to capture on film - especially the way the hills just stretch on forever at the sides of this big, flat valley, with no real center.

That's kind of how I feel now - not really there.

Posted by markj at January 11, 2003 05:47 PM

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that sounds like one of my NORMAL weekends! sounds like you had a great trip but i'm sure you're glad to be home.

Posted by: jen at January 11, 2003 10:39 PM

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