WordCamp 2007
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wear comfortable shoes means:
anytime you look at a map and think, “oh, that’s right around the corner”, you may turn the corner and realize that yes, it’s only a block or so, but that block climbs a good 50 feet before you get where you’re going.
extra points if you’re wearing a suit, running late, and don’t have change for the trolley at the time.
but other than that, yeah, SF is a blast.
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for anyone who’s going cheap and from the US, I’ve usually flown southwest into oakland, and taken the BART around the bay.
and the MUNI system (as well as the busses) is/are very handy for getting around, i’ve never bothered renting a car.
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Happy to help.
~atthe404: “very comfortable shoes” –Sunburnt has it Exactly right.
The Basque Hotel isn’t well-known, by visitors, but it is just super, especially for a large party. You sit at long tables, platters piled high–salad, two entres, vege, dessert–passed, non-stop. Generally, every Thing in SF is Expensive, but not the Basque; not the Muni (public transportation).
Another fun thing for dinner: A Moroccan place, with cushions on the floor, finger food and belly dancers.
BART: have never/will Never. Things are less expensive, i.e. stay in Oakland and get into City on BART. But before you plan that: BART is under water. SF is earthquake country. THAT is not how I want to go….
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Ten years ago I stayed at the Lombard, a gay hotel; it was awesome! Handy location and sweet workers. I came back late one night and the front desk guy admonished me, “Where have you been? We’ve been so worried about you!” I shall have to see if they’re still around.
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I actually wear boots myself, even when I do my three hour walks…
Rain, is this it? http://lombardmotorinn.com/
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No, definitely not that one. This one was a run-down 1800’s building, painted white with black trim, just a couple of blocks off Church. It wasn’t actually very close to Lombard street at all; it was around Polk and California, within a block or two of there. Can’t find it online at the moment, sorry. I’ll post it if I do. It seems that most of the men staying there were permanent residents, and it had a kind of old-skool boarding house vibe to it.
One of the pluses was at the garage around the corner the attendant was so bad at math that instead of charging us $25 a day for parking, he charged us $45 for the whole week; then his boss came over and said, “That’s not right” and corrected it to $36. I love the American education system!
I think I found the book through the Access guide. They are the BEST guidebooks to cities, covering each building in every block. I did buy San Francisco on a Shoestring, and if you have the chance to buy it, DON’T!!! Every single piece of advice in that book could not possibly have been worse. Burn the damn thing instead.
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@rain
You crack me up. My friend burned her copy of “San Francisco on a Shoestring” in her woodstove when she got home from her vacation. She whined about how much her calves hurt and moaned about not taking her running shoes with her. She took only “city” clothes with her which proved to be a bad move. When I talked to her last night she told me she should have dressed exactly as she does here – in layers. And that if she had then she wouldn’t have got a cold to go with her sore feet and legs. But she ate her face off and had a great time. Unfortunately she stayed with relatives of her ex so I can’t play that card.
San Francisco bed and breakfasts -
It’s a west coast city that averages one degree colder than Vancouver, year-round. Polarfleece, Gore-Tex, and yoga pants will do. Everyone there seems to look like they just stepped out of REI or they just stepped out of Chanel; there is no in-between.
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YIKES! I just realized I will have to apply for a passport and from what we hear on the tube maybe they may have it ready by July.
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If they’ll let me in with an outdated passport, I’ll go. Otherwise, as TT says, it’s already too late. They just implimented this requirement a month or so ago; previously, you didn’t need a passport if you were Canadian (although not all border guards knew this, of course).
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This is what I found on-line: http://www.ppt.gc.ca/help/faq.aspx?lang=e
Passport Canada is experiencing a sharp volume increase in passport applications in all of its offices, by mail and through its receiving agents. Due to this increase in volume, it may take up to 45 business days (9 weeks) before you receive your new passport.
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such a shame regulars in the forum can’t make it… would be nice to see how everybody looks like.
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I am still wondering if there is a cost and where exactly it is being held. It is only an hour drive for me, so I plan to attend.
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You’ll have to wait till the hierarchy disseminates more information.
Blogging conferences tend to be done on the cheap, just like blogs. If there was no charge last year I’d expect it to be minimal this year, as in under a hundred if not free.
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With the comfortable shoe business I just wondered if this was one of the venues for the famous WP fetish for line dancing. :)
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The trouble is that Brits flying into the US are now treated like Gitmo inmates. A lot of us have stopped going there.
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~atthe404: ‘shoes’ –‘line dancing’ –‘Gitmo’ –you’re mak’n me giggle, right in the middle of the night!
Just so you know: if you look up November 2006 Election, Americans, in direct proportion to those vote totals, are embarassed/ashamed of how the rest of the world now looks at us. ALL of us are now “treated like [viewed as potential] Gitmo inmates”…by Oval Office Occupant. BUT: We Adore Brits; he’s nearly impotent; about to loose his Justice Dept. chief flunky jailer. COME to Word Camp, if you can. Bring comfortable shoes!
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