love & hate: san francisco

April 27th, 2009 @ 10:15 pm | love & hate | Post a Comment

love: a free trip to San Francisco, as long as I work every day while I’m here

hate: this hardly leaves me any daytime hours to go exploring

love: my meetings took me over both the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay Bridge today — stunning!

hate: my rental car is a PT Cruiser — NOT stunning!

love: got a great rate on a cute little boutique hotel (free wine at 5pm every day in the lobby!)

hate: very aggressive begging people on the street outside the hotel (like, they will curse you out when you don’t give them money)

love: friends took me out for sushi two nights in a row

hate: it might be time to branch out to new food before I get mercury poisoning

love: walking up and down the hills of San Francisco = best butt workout you could ask for

hate: just wondering if we are all going to die of swine flu, and am I at an increased risk because I’ve been in three major hub airports this week?

love: watching TV from the hotel bed, feels like a treat because we outlaw television in the bedroom at home

hate: sleeping all alone without my man and my cats. Okay, I kind of don’t miss the cats sleeping on my head.

love: drove past the row of houses from the Full House opening theme (see photo here)

hate: have so much of the city left to see – I only have 36 hours to go!

comments

  1. How fun! Do you get to eat out at all? There are SO many great places out there; my head always got full when I flew out for work.

    Today, I love that it’s a comfortable 65 degrees in the morning. However, I hate that it will be 90 degrees when I drive home. Blech.

    written by RA

    April 28th, 2009 @ 6:40 am

  2. I agree that it feels like a treat to watch TV in bed since we don’t have one either.

    written by the ambitious mrs

    April 28th, 2009 @ 7:15 am

  3. Love: San Francisco
    Love: That you are in San Francisco
    Hate: That *I* am not in San Francisco, eating sushi and crushing on my favorite city.

    xox

    written by heidikins

    April 28th, 2009 @ 8:07 am

  4. Love San Francisco. Haven’t been there in years, though. Last time I was there involved a convertible Saab with the top down and heater blowing on high as we whipped through the city streets and over bridges galore. What fun!

    written by SoMi's Nilsa

    April 28th, 2009 @ 12:05 pm

  5. hope you are having a fabulous time in san fran. i absolutely love the city, so pretty.

    written by katelin

    April 28th, 2009 @ 12:58 pm

  6. I’ve only been to SF once and it was only for a few hours. I would love to go back and visit!

    written by Jackie

    April 29th, 2009 @ 7:15 am

  7. There is a really good tapas place that you should go to called Colibri Mexican Bistro on Geary Street. So good! And the aggressiveness of the homeless there surprised me as well – and I’m from NYC! I’m going back twice in the next two months, I can’t wait to do some more exploring!

    written by Lacey Bean

    April 29th, 2009 @ 9:12 am

  8. I loved Full House!!

    written by Amber

    April 29th, 2009 @ 2:59 pm

  9. Awww, this makes me miss San Francisco. It’s my favorite U.S. city…so far, anyway… Hard to top!

    written by Liberal Banana

    April 30th, 2009 @ 10:25 am

  10. I adore San Francisco…what a great city!

    written by Larissa

    April 30th, 2009 @ 2:45 pm

  11. I do love San Francisco too–always have! But the beggar problem seems out of of control. So mine is love San Francisco and all that it has to offer and it is so beautiful. Hate that we have such a homeless problem in this country, but what to do about that, I have no idea.

    written by lesli

    April 30th, 2009 @ 3:12 pm

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    written by Unsilent Majority

    May 2nd, 2009 @ 2:22 pm

  13. Love SF. Have fun with your remaining time. xoxo

    written by Beth Dunn

    May 4th, 2009 @ 12:39 pm