flyingelectric’s posterous

In san francisco the double decker bus turned out to be one of the best events / trips. The particular outfit we stumbled upon was different than the other operators we saw in that they had new equipment and a live tour director. It was a modest $25 per adult one day and $20 per child one day. Other operators either had real shabby looking coaches, or a computer voice announcing the stops. This was a great way to see a large part of the tourist areas for cheap. Its an on/off sort of thing too - they run from about 0930 to about 1630 and have multiple busses. They have 1 day and 2 day passes. When we go back we will do this again.
 
If we knew then what we know now we would have done the 2 day pass for sure.
 
While coit tower was fun and a "must see", it still haunts us as one of the lessor fun parts of the trip. We humped our backsides there on foot from fishermans wharf. It's the same distance to walk from our hotel to pier 39 (to get on the boat to alcratraz) as it is to coit tower. But its a very different physical investment.
 
Alcatraz was "ok". We were not blown away, but we got that "notch on the gun stock". We won't ever need to do that again. Ever.

Guess what we learned - you can drive a long way on a rim that looks like it shouldn't hold air.
 
We picked up the rental car sunday in san francisco. We drove it up the hills to Muir Woods. That's a very curvey ride that's about 30 minutes one way at interstate speeds at times.
 
When we left for our trip to Vegas on Monday we noticed on the passengers side that the rim had a big dent in it.
 
Sometimes just for fun I like to ask questions when I already know the answers. Like in this case - when the valet pulled around and I said "hey - what's this?!?" I knew he wouldn't really have an answer. (No - I didn't seriously believe they had dented it - I was realizing that the mostly likely scenario was that we'd simply overlooked it the previous day on check out - and the realization was sinking in that while we were facing a long journey to vegas, I also knew that we had already driven what I felt to be pretty aggressively to Muir Woods without incident. As I was collecting the facts and thoughts I pretty quickly concluded this wasn't a problem.)
 
But just for fun - I asked the valet: "well, I wonder if this is going to be ok for our drive to vegas?"
 
"Oh - sure - no problemo sir"
 
I actually said out loud right before I tipped him "I didn't expect any different answer!"
 
We drove that rim from san francisco to muir woods to san francisco to vegas to the grand canyon back to vegas. I'm not sure exactly how many miles all that is, but its a bunch.
 
-jj

Our flight attendant keeps calling daniel "da baby". Daniel LOVES it. (Not really)
-jj

we're headed home. Finally. And thankful that today is thursday. Which means we have 3 days to collect ourselves before the week begins. Daniel and I have big plans for the weekend - maybe we will return to what this site is all about: cool things that we do and learn about as newbs in the rc flight space.
 
-jj