San Francisco Plans

In a few weeks we going to San Francisco! We made this somewhat spur-of-the-moment decision because: 1) I discovered a conference scheduled for April 22 that I would love to go to, and 2) I've been wanting to go to San Francisco for years! The closest I've been is a layover at the airport. David has visited a few times before but loves it, so we're both quite excited.

We are going to drive down on Monday, April 20, giving us a full day of sightseeing before my conference on Wednesday. It's called ADSPACE and is mainly about the Google ads that put most of the dinner on our table. For the not-so-cheap price of registration, I also get to check out the exhibit hall of a larger conference called ad:tech, which deals with all manner of web advertising. Hopefully it will all be very informative and make me even better at webmastering.

We are booked for four nights at a cute boutique hotel on Union Square called, rather unimaginatively, Hotel Union Square. We may end up staying there a little longer than four nights, or we might stop for a night or two in Napa Valley, Mount Shasta, Crater Lake, or similar.

We are still planning to drive to Minnesota in mid-May, so it will be quite a busy travel time for awhile! But we've had a good winter rest, and we're both ready to dust off the cameras and get back on the road again.

Fun fact: this time last year, we were in Ruvo di Puglia in southeast Italy.


David cooling his weary feet in Ruvo, April 2, 2008.