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Sunday, August 24th, 2008

SFO: Day 4

Walked by OLSON and AI. Dealt with hangovers (thanks a lot Abby) and then off to the airport. The cabbie asked if I was in the army and told us how the Pakistani border patrol on the Afghan and Indian borders is encouraged to grow large mustaches in order to look more intimidating. They are [...]

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Day 3

Rented Trek bikes and took them across the Golden Gate bridge. It was cold up there! Spent some time in Sausalito the took a ferry back to San Francisco. The boat kind. Retuned the bikes and grabbed a cable car. Got stuck next to the cable car museum. Single-handedly pushed it on, but I had [...]

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Day 2

Fisherman’s wharf, Coit tower   

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Arriving in SFO

Stopped at Ike’s at MSP which is pretty nice for being in an airport. Missed our names being paged at the gate. Did they want to upgrade us to first class? Probably. Then, Jason Sack the elder in on the plane! Unexpected. Nice hotel, nice drinks.

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Hard Luck in CA

We got about two miles from Jason’s land before misfortune struck. My brother Dan and I flew to San Francisco, drove to Hayfork, and met Jason for the ride up, up, up, up, up the mountain. We didn’t make it. When I climbed into Jason’s dusty truck he told Dan to stay two minutes behind [...]