SporkSports - San Francisco, January 2002

(5-31-08)

I'm not really a huge fan of traveling, especially traveling alone to places I've never been to before where I don't have any friends or family. In short, business travel isn't really very high on my list of things that I enjoy. We're rolling out this big new product at work though, and they've given us an incredibly short timeframe to have it implemented by. In order to bring us up to speed as quickly as possible, they decided to send us to the soonest training classes, even though that meant going out of state to attend them.

So, with about two days to plan my trip, I got everything I needed all set and booked my flight and travel plan with the help of the administration office at work. Since I didn't really want to travel, I figured I might as well try to make the best of it by taking my camera and my laptop from work so I could take pictures and write stuff for my web site if there was nothing else to do. As it turns out, I found tons of stuff to take pictures of (155 pictures over the week) but never spent much time writing anything on the computer.

So without blabbing on forever about every street I walked down or the details of the food market which was roughly the size of the master bathroom at my house, I'll just dive right in to the pictures. As always, email me with any questions or comments.

January 20th, 2002, The Grand Canyon from our cruising altitude of 36,000 feet. Edge enhanced to show detail.
January 20th, Lake Mead
January 20th, A snow-capped mountain range

January 20th, Another snowy mountain range.
January 20th, I arrive at my hotel (short one on the left) at Powell and California, right in the heart of downtown.
January 20th, A great view of Grace Cathedrel from a nearby park

January 21st, The sunrise from my hotel room view facing west.
January 21st, Lombard Street, supposedly the steepest residential street in the country.
January 21st, The view from the top of Lombard Street

January 22nd, One Market Street is the building all the way at the end of California Street. This was the view from halfway there from my hotel.
January 22nd, Downdown traffic was always very dense.
January 22nd, Looking out east from the 7th floor observation deck at One Market Street

January 22nd, A view of downtown to the west from the 7th floor observation area.
January 22nd, The sunset from my hotel room.
January 23rd, By Wednesday night, I was getting a little bored.

January 25th, The Golden Gate Bridge, as seen from the beach.
January 25th, Tiny birds chase bugs and tiny fish as the waves crash.
January 25th, Further down the shoreline, I found a nice observation point to take pictures from above.

January 25th, I took this from the northern lookout point at Twin Peaks. The huge road off to the right is Market Street, and One Market Street (where I had my classes) is at the very end. My hotel is somewhere in the middle of all that.
January 25th, Twin Peaks, as seen from one of the scenic lookout points.
January 25th, The only airport food worth eating!

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January 20th, 2002, The Grand Canyon from our cruising altitude of 36,000 feet. Edge enhanced to show detail.	January 20th, Lake Mead	January 20th, A snow-capped mountain range
January 20th, Another snowy mountain range.	January 20th, I arrive at my hotel (short one on the left) at Powell and California, right in the heart of downtown.	January 20th, A great view of Grace Cathedrel from a nearby park
January 21st, The sunrise from my hotel room view facing west.	January 21st, Lombard Street, supposedly the steepest residential street in the country.	January 21st, The view from the top of Lombard Street
January 22nd, One Market Street is the building all the way at the end of California Street. This was the view from halfway there from my hotel.	January 22nd, Downdown traffic was always very dense.	January 22nd, Looking out east from the 7th floor observation deck at One Market Street
January 22nd, A view of downtown to the west from the 7th floor observation area.	January 22nd, The sunset from my hotel room.	January 23rd, By Wednesday night, I was getting a little bored.
January 25th, The Golden Gate Bridge, as seen from the beach.	January 25th, Tiny birds chase bugs and tiny fish as the waves crash.	January 25th, Further down the shoreline, I found a nice observation point to take pictures from above.
January 25th, I took this from the northern lookout point at Twin Peaks. The huge road off to the right is Market Street, and One Market Street (where I had my classes) is at the very end. My hotel is somewhere in the middle of all that.	January 25th, Twin Peaks, as seen from one of the scenic lookout points.	January 25th, The only airport food worth eating!