Hi everyone, the NY Times is running another article in their travel section about San Francisco. You can check it out here (if you were/are an Abuzz member you're already a nytimes.com member).
http://www.nytimes.com/top/features/travel/destinations/unitedstates/california/sanfrancisco/index.html?8dpc
cjh, As a member of Abuzz, I was able to access your link, but they also included a popup ad that I didn't want. I may have to terminate my membership with NYT to get rid of all of the popups.
Hi ci, I cannot prevent the NYTimes from sending you popup ads, however, I do recommend you get Google's popup blocker. It works quite well.
I'll second cjhsa's recommendation about Google's popup blocker. It's free, easy, and it works!
Hi Osso,
I've only been once so I guess my favorite place is my brother's house.
Shall we all agree on the weekend of April 9-10-11? We need to make new reservations and plans for the new dates, so the sooner we agree, the better--we also want to be there when the PDiddies are there, which makes that the last possible weekend. Is everybody copasetic?
Ehbeth, how about you? McTag, how about you? Please try to make it.
My buddy was ok with it, as of Dec 24th. Now I just need the vacation schedule to come out!
Oh, yayyyyy, and hoping.
Also, my friend who was up here on Dec. 26th to bring one of my paintings and have dinner w/me said, when I told her about this and that Cav might come, well, tell him I'll get the supplies and provide the kitchen if he'd cook a dinner...
I didn't inquire much further, as we were mid meal at the 301 and it is a little hard for me to hear in there (hi, diane!!). I presume that would be for her and her husband's friends at their house, which is presently in mid renovation. (but - she is managing it and she has credentials in construction management, and besides, the kitchen is not being renovated just yet, still a fifties type kitchen). These are the people I gave knives (serious forged knives) to for their wedding a year and a half ago).
It might be amusing for Cav. Further inquiries pending. I didn't explore re some of us who weren't elsewhere coming, or whether Cav has a fee, it was just a leaping thought. But Lynn can make things happen. Alternately, they may be in Turkey in April, so this is ephemeral.
Anyway, I who lives at the other end of the financial range, if not the edge, am going to look in the next couple of days at the Savoy and Nob Hill Motor Inn, one more time. I still think I am flying vs driving...
CI, did you stay at the Rex yet?
April 9, 10 and 11 looks good for me. I hope cav can make it too.
osso, We're staying at the Rex on February 12 after we see the Lion King, just for one night, because we want to make it "a day in the city."
BTW, I'll be available from the evening of April 8 through the evening of April 12. I promised several people some tours, so please let me know when the best dates will be for you.
Good, CI. Personally, i just hope to meet and hear about your trip. Will your wife come meet with us? I am probably not coming on the tours myself, but it depends, maybe I'd love to catch a ferry with friends... Lynn tells me that the early market around the embarcadero, which she took me to and where we had breakfast before when we spent two days going around galleries, has moved into a building and is bigger and better, will have to find out the particulars. When you line up who wants to tour and the rest of us, maybe we can meet at the launch or somewhere on the way.
Jjorge and pdiddie may have particular places they crave to see.
Lots to play with here.
Signed,
the person who wants to talk and walk.
We need to work out how to have a command center, ways to convene.
Jjorge, do you have any ideas of what you would like to check out, perhaps with a number of friends at your side?
(you can cross bays, even, hmmmm, go to point reyes, well, not to sway you, that is an hour and a half away or so, that was mentioned to trigger where you might get a kick out of going...)
Point Reyes could be a destination, for some. The top of the Fairmont for others. We all have our druthers.
Osso, you were right when you mentioned that there were two hotels named Nob Hill. The Nob Hill Moter Inn does have free parking, which makes it MUCH cheaper for Dys and I.
The early market at the Embarcadero sounds wonderful--I also want to find that museum some friends and I went to when we lived there in the 60's. The memories were 'enhanced,' making it harder to pinpoint the location. The fog, the statues seeming to move as the fog wisped around them--ah, magic.
I love art galleries, so I'm looking forward to being lead by the nose by osso.
I think the only painting we ever bought in San Francisco is a small oil by Sumner. I think we paid $200 for it several life time ago. On a visit to the Hawaiian islands one summer, we visited a art gallery that had Sumner paintings, so I asked the lady how much a similar sized painting was priced. She said $2,000. Wow! <choke>
Well, this is all grand.
My wife convinced a co-worker to shift; so we will be in the Bay Area from the 9th to the 16th.
We're spending the week at the King George, we'll have a rental car, and we plan on a lot of see-and-do.
Likewise with cicerone, we want ossobuco's art gallery tour.
ossobuco wrote:Jjorge, do you have any ideas of what you would like to check out, perhaps with a number of friends at your side?
(you can cross bays, even, hmmmm, go to point reyes, well, not to sway you, that is an hour and a half away or so, that was mentioned to trigger where you might get a kick out of going...)
I Don't much care where I'm going
It's contact with you-all I seek,
I'm prepared for SOME to-ing and fro-ing
(too much -- my knees start to creak)
In other words:
TOO much hither and thither
...I wither.
I haven't gotten reservations yet, but I will wrap a visit with my brother and his family around the 9-10-11 gathering. I'll probably stay in a hotel
4-9 and 4-10. Not sure which. I'm very open to suggestions (think cheap)
