So, jumping in back in time a couple of weeks here. Before I forget, here’s a list of what we got up to in the last week of our U.S.A holiday, in San Francisco and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
San Francisco<\/b> – 4 days<\/p>\n
– Door to door SuperShuttle<\/a> mini-bus van to\/from the airport. Los Angeles<\/b> – 3 days<\/p>\n – Upgrade to premium economy class because of Joanne’s foot\/splint from San Francisco to Los Angeles. More as I remember it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, jumping in back in time a couple of weeks here. Before I forget, here’s a list of what we got up to in the last week of our U.S.A holiday, in San Francisco and Los Angeles. San Francisco – 4 days – Door to door SuperShuttle mini-bus van to\/from the airport. – Stayed at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,13,2,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/decoded.outer-rim.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Stayed at the Orchard Hotel<\/a> on Bush Street.
\n– San Francisco Movie Tour<\/a> – filming locations tour on a mini-bus
\n– Visited the Yoda statue\/fountain at the Letterman Digital Arts Centre<\/a> which also has the HQ of Industrial Light and Magic, LucasArts & LucasFilms, visited the foyer of LucasFilms, full of Star Wars stuff.
\n– Saw San Francisco City Hall<\/a> used in films like A View To A Kill, and Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
\n– Saw the Golden Gate Bridge<\/a>.
\n– Saw the Painted Ladies<\/a> (houses) in Alamo Square, and Lower Haight.
\n– Checked out Pier 39<\/a>, saw the stinky and funny sea lions at early evening one day, and afternoon another.
\n– Walked up and down hills.
\n– Rode on the MUNI cable cars, trolley cars, trams, electric buses (trolleybus)
\n– Ate chinese food for lunch in Chinatown.
\n– Visited Tweekin’ records, where Sydney’s club Tweekin’ got it’s name.
\n– Walked up and down Lombard Street, very pretty.
\n– Shopped in the Westfield and around Union Square area.
\n– Transamerica Pyramid<\/a> (where Miles works in Electic Dreams (movie)).
\n– Saw Miles & Madeline’s apartment 1117 Mason St.<\/a> from Electric Dreams<\/a> (movie).
\n– Had a drink in Francis Ford Coppola’s Cafe Zoetrope<\/a>.
\n– Saw TV show Trauma<\/a> being filmed in North Beach.
\n– Got annoyed at restaurants all closing their kitchens at 9.30pm when we were ready for dinner.
\n– Bought Levis jeans, so cheap!
\n– Walked around The Castro<\/a> area, saw The Castro theatre, showing Bruno!
\n– walked up Haight Street, saw the Haight & Ashbury<\/a> intersection.
\n– Ate and drank at the Magnolia Pub<\/a>.
\n– Saw the Grateful Dead house.
\n– Saw Janis Joplin’s house.
\n– Visited the free San Francisco Cable Car Museum<\/a>.
\n– Went to M5 Industries<\/a> (Mythbusters<\/a>) and took photos outside.
\n– Rode in taxis.
\n– Saw John Tejada & Steve Bug DJ at Mezzanine club.
\n– Saw Washington Square Park<\/a> (Dirty Harry movie opening scene).
\n– Saw Saint Peter & Saint Paul Church<\/a> Washington Square, North Beach.
\n– Bought Depeche Mode CDs and 12″ at Rasputin Movies & Music.
\n– Bought more plain T-shirts at Gap.
\n– Night tour of Alcatraz Island<\/a>.
\n– My girlfriend Joanne broke her ankle on Alcatraz Island, an hour into the tour.
\n– Rode in a San Francisco Fire Dept ambulance.
\n– Spent hours at St. Francis Memorial Hospital<\/a> ER department.
\n– Ate take away pizza at 2am at the hotel.
\n– Joanne spent a lot of time talking with, e-mailing and faxing the travel insurance people.<\/p>\n
\n– Because of Joanne’s foot, she got assigned an airport security person to push her around in a wheelchair and we went to the front of every line\/security checkpoint.
\n– Door to door shuttle mini-bus van to\/from the airport.
\n– Stayed in the Hilton Checkers in Downtown, very nice! Great staff too.
\n– Saw Inglourious Basterds at Laemmle’s Grande 4-Plex theatre.
\n– Pushed Joanne around in the hotel’s own wheelchair, which we borrowed a few times.
\n– Caught up with an L.A based Internet techno friend Greg Riot Nrrd for Japanese lunch, in Little Tokyo.
\n– Saw the Disney Concert Hall.
\n– Ate a lot of room service, and at the hotel Checkers Downtown restuarant.
\n– Went to the Laugh Factory (West Hollywood), laughed for 4 hours, went to see secret guest stand-up comedian Jeremy Hotz (thanks to his Facebook update), and got the awesome surprise bonus of Dane Cook turning up. Other comedians performing on the night: Neal Brennan, Bobby Lee, Sebastian Maniscalco and a bunch more I can’t remember.
\n– It cost us almost $100 in a taxi to get from Downtown to West Hollywood and back, not cheap!
\n– Joanne spent a lot of time talking with, e-mailing and faxing the travel insurance people.
\n– Bought space invader key chains from the MOCA shop, didn’t get to visit the MOCA gallery\/museum.
\n– Had a look around the downtown area we were staying in, walking by some filming locations of the movie Collateral.
\n– Pushed Joanne to\/from Macey’s Downtown in a wheelchair, for some last minute shopping.
\n– Ate spanish food for late lunch, early dinner before heading to LAX.
\n– Travel insurance arranged for Joanne to fly home in Business Elite class, I stayed in economy.
\n– Bought a bunch of Godiva chocolate, perfume\/edt, and alchohol duty free at LAX, so cheap!
\n– Watched on-demand movies on the flight home: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Matrix Revolutions, The Soloist, Pride & Glory.<\/p>\n