San Francisco Part I

During the first week of February, I participated in an internal audit of TTB's Compliance Laboratory (our sister lab) in Walnut Creek, CA. My flight to the San Francisco airport ended up going through Miami due to a crack in the plane that I was supposed to take to the Dallas/Fort Worth airport. I ended up traveling from 6am to midnight eastern time. On the bright side, I didn't fly in a plane with a crack in it, and I adjusted to west coast time pretty quickly.

After my work obligation was over, I went back to San Francisco to meet up with some friends. I had some time to kill before they got off work, and so I did some geocaching. The first find of the trip was as the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station that was two blocks away from my hotel. The clouds obstruct the view of Mout Diablo (http://www.parks.ca.gov/Default.asp?page_id=517), but I did get to see it clearly during my stay.

My rolling suitcase was my companion for the day, and again, on the bright side, it was great cover for geocaching in San Francisco. People didn't think anything of it when I stopped randomly, looked at maps, looked confused, and lingered in a place too long.


My favorite caches of the day were placed by a single cacher. This person had painted water colors of buildings in the city and uploaded them to the cache's website so that they could be followed like a scavenger hunt. I have not been very good at finding actuals in cities(physical containers hidden in the middle of very populated areas), especially on my own, but these visual clues made it quite easy and very fun. Those registered at geocaching.com can see the water color of this photo by searching for GC1JETZ.



There are many nice places for hides in the area between the Embarcadero and Powell Street Bart Stations, between Market and Folsom Streets. This picture was taken at the Yerba Buena Gardens. I really enjoyed spending my time in this area of the city.