Reply #16: I Made It To The SF Rally - Finally!

[AnnieBW]

Okay, I've been in San Jose for a business conference. Before I knew that there was a rally scheduled, I'd decided to leave on Sunday so I could go up to San Francisco and do the tourist thing. It's one of my favorite cities in the U.S. Well, I was a slug and slept in this morning. Then, I had trouble finding a FedEx or UPS place that was open on Saturday to send my conference goodies back home, rather than lugging them on the plane with me. So, I finally set out around 10. After a few wrong turns, I was on the way to SF. Stopped at a "vista point" to take pictures of the beautiful nature reserve along the way. (Who knew?) Decided at the last minute to check out the town of Pacifica for various reasons. Spent about 1/2 hour there. Had lunch in Daly City, made a few wrong turns trying to find the BART, and finally made it up to the Civic Center around 2:30.

I walked around for a bit, took some pictures, and bought some stuff. The drummers were really good. The giant Rumsfeld, Condi, Bush and Cheney heads at "Liars Anonymous" were amusing, too. Another person had a giant Bush head with "Read My Lips", and when it opened its mouth, it said "oil". Talked to a woman at Vets for Peace that looked amazingly like Cindy Sheehan, but she was doing a petition about Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange, so I figured it wasn't Cindy after all. I never did hook up with the other DU people on the California section.

Well, my flight back to DC is tomorrow at 9 AM. Ugh. I've got to pile in early, so I can get up at 5 to check out and return my car.

I could really live here. Except for the price of housing, that is!