going to Potlatch?

[calimac]

Anyone considering flying from Seattle should be aware of this:

The Virgin America sale requires travelers to buy tickets on its Web site, www.virginamerica.com, by Dec. 11 and commence travel on or after Jan. 6. All travel must be complete by March 1. The deals include $59 fares one-way between San Francisco and three destinations - Las Vegas, San Diego and Seattle.

Sunday, March 1, by some wonderful coincidence, is the last day of Potlatch. There are flights leaving San Francisco at 4:45 and 8:59 PM, which are late enough to keep you from missing the convention and its fabulous Banquet.

We have been recommending that, all things being equal, travelers fly to San Jose, as it's only 7 miles away. But the San Francisco airport is not hard to get to, either: it's 33 miles by road from Sunnyvale, which is about the same distance to SeaTac from, oh, Edmonds. (And the freeway traffic isn't usually quite as bad.) This shuttle quotes $35 for the first passenger, $9 each additional, from zip code 94087 where our hotel is.

Group up! Pass it on!

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Other people do write like that. It's merely that I am without guile. (Well, without that sort of guile.) Interpretations like this don't occur to me until someone points them out. What I wanted to counteract was the view of the South Bay as a vast suburban wasteland where there is literally nothing to eat for miles (which in spots is true, just not our spots). I will prepare more specific info for PR3.

The SF neighborhood wasn't exactly dangerous, though it is on the edge of the Tenderloin, which is plenty dicey. The problem is that it's shoddy, run down, and surprisingly devoid of good close-by restaurants, especially surprisingly for San Francisco.