{"id":59,"date":"2005-08-18T17:03:54","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T21:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/?p=59"},"modified":"2007-05-04T02:05:05","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T06:05:05","slug":"san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfbound.jpg\" title=\"200505sfbound.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfbound.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"200505sfbound.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td textalign=\"top\">Went to San Francisco for a quick visit to my sister, who was there on business and expensing her hotel. It was a Thursday thrugh Sunday vacation that included a side excursion to Napa Valley.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sftransamericabuilding.jpg\" title=\"200505sftransamericabuilding.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sftransamericabuilding.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"200505sftransamericabuilding.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>The hotel was downtown in the financial district. Early next morning was greeted with a view of iconic TransAmerica building.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfportofsanfrancisco.jpg\" title=\"200505sfportofsanfrancisco.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfportofsanfrancisco.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"200505sfportofsanfrancisco.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfbaybridge.jpg\" title=\"200505sfbaybridge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfbaybridge.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"200505sfbaybridge.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>She had to work the Thursday and Friday while I was there, so I was left largely on my own to amuse myself. Walked the couple of blocks to the dock area, and caught the Bay Bridge.<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfcablecar.jpg\" title=\"200505sfcablecar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfcablecar.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"200505sfcablecar.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/content\/200505SFCableCar.jpg\"> <\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sflastsupper.jpg\" title=\"200505sflastsupper.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sflastsupper.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"200505sflastsupper.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Took the cable car up to Fisherman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wharf neighborhood. Fell into all the usual tourist trap things, like the wax museum that had, among other things, this Last Supper.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfalcatraz.jpg\" title=\"200505sfalcatraz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfalcatraz.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"200505sfalcatraz.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Out in the water, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Alcatraz. Meanwhile, back on the mainland,  sea-lions bask in the sun.<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfsealion.jpg\" title=\"200505sfsealion.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfsealion.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"200505sfsealion.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfsterlingwinery.jpg\" title=\"200505sfsterlingwinery.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfsterlingwinery.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"200505sfsterlingwinery.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>Finally, on Saturday, we headed to wine country Napa Valley. This is a view from Sterling winery.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfberingerwinery.jpg\" title=\"200505sfberingerwinery.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfberingerwinery.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"200505sfberingerwinery.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>The Beringer house that can be seen some Beringer wine bottles at your local boozerporium bodega.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfcoppolawinery.jpg\" title=\"200505sfcoppolawinery.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfcoppolawinery.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"200505sfcoppolawinery.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>This is part of the Coppola-Niebaum winery.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>On the red-eye, at dawn, I returned home.<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfreturn.jpg\" title=\"200505sfreturn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bluezulu.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/08\/200505sfreturn.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"200505sfreturn.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to San Francisco for a quick visit to my sister, who was there on business and expensing her hotel. It was a Thursday thrugh Sunday vacation that included a side excursion to Napa Valley. The hotel was downtown in the financial district. Early next morning was greeted with a view of iconic TransAmerica building. 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