The adult Doyles are on the left side – I’m piggybacking on the wife’s business trip to UX Week. It’s the first vacation sans kids and we’re very excited to be here, though we can’t help but think about the fun Katie and Patrick will have when we travel here as a family.
There is so much to do and see. SF has a real entrepreneurial vibe, just like Austin. You get the same weirdness, too.
Without taking up too much vacation time, here are some additional observations about San Francisco, CA:
- This place is filled with Europeans. Damn dollar.
- Speaking of, most Euro males love old Nike Hightops.
- High in the mid 60′s. Friday in Texas is going to be a shock.
- It’s hilly here. Yeah, that’s right, hilly.
- I could eat fresh seafood with every meal if I wanted.
- People are nice and the police, even nicer (seriously).
- Lots of Asians here, too. Damn dollar. Wait…
- The Golden Gate Park is the coolest municipal place I’ve been. Figures that it was built by Olmsted. That man was a genius designer.
- The Haight isn’t what it was, but I like to think about the free thought it provokes.
- Tonight we’re seeing my cousin Billy Doyle and meeting his girl. I’m really excited – I felt thisclose to Billy as a kid.
- Yeah, that’s right, Billy the Kid.
- Turns out, I like to be a tourist. But cool metro places make me miss Chicago.
- Hotel Nikko is the shit. Union Square is not, but I like the place we’re in.
- I forgot how much I love the Land Rover Defender (primer to Twitter info below)
- It’s super expensive to live here. I mean, extremely expensive.
- Hanging out in neighborhood places always beats a downtown locale. Seems to be that way across the board.
I’ve “Tweeted” a bunch more about out visit. “Tweet, what’s that?” you may say. “Sounds silly”.
A Tweet is a microblog post. Here, on my blog, I could write a novel and then post it. But on Twitter (where one “tweets”), you get 140 characters and you can upload images. That’s how I’ve been documenting the trip.
Go to my Twitter page to see what we’ve been up to. If you click on TwitPic links, you’ll see images from my posts.
If you’re still confused about Twitter, watch this fantastic video:
If you join Twitter, contact me so we can follow one another.
A quick note - I want to leave with a huge heartfelt thank you to Karen and Corky. if it wasn’t for your generosity, we wouldn’t be here. Thanks for watching the twins.
Reading through your twitter posts, and knowing that all entries start with “what are you doing now,” or something to that effect, I keep waiting for this entry – “getting clobbered by Stacey for fiddling with my phone so much…” (I know it would be one of my entries were I in your place!)
That’s funny. She’s always saying “put that phone down”. I wish Twitter were instantaneous and required no action from me other than a few voice commands.
Maybe a quick retinal scan to know what you are thinking. Oh, it’s coming….
Would that be the iScan, or the iEye?
The iEye is for sailors only (and ghey).