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San Francisco 2015 Experience

Oliver Rivett-Carnac edited this page May 10, 2015 · 1 revision

27 April - Day 1

  • Landed
  • 50 dollar taxi ride
  • Whitcomb checkin
  • Get Muni from Wallgreens
  • Walk around upper market street a bit
  • Get burger king (yuk)
  • Apple store
  • Pier 39
  • Drive through North Beach (Italian Vibes)
  • Hard Rock Cafe
    • Coronas
    • Tequila
    • Nachos

28 April - Day 2

  • Hotel breakfast Greek Yogurt Fruit Parfait is win
  • Walked around Civic Center area
  • Saw uber and twitter headquarters from the outside
  • Walked the Golden Gate bridge
  • Registered for BUILD 2015
  • Chipotle
  • Xamarin drinks party

29 April - Day 3

  • First day of BUILD 2015
  • Keynote in overflow room
  • Have drinks after sessions are done (Annabelles)
  • Head back to Hotel
  • Ali and I get our Laptops
  • Have a bunch of drinks at Pub
  • Buy 40oz beers - Pranqsters

30 April - Day 4

  • Breakfast @ Sams Dinner. Nice place and traditional american breakfast
  • Day 2 of BUILD2015
  • Walked around trying to find MS store
  • Nice parks
  • BUILD2015 party at Julians
    • Forza and fun :)
  • Walking around Mission St in Downtown
  • Extreme Pizza!!!
  • I wanted to club bad

1 May - Day 5

  • Last Day of BUILD 2015
  • Some sessions too full so missed Deep Dive into ASP.NET 5
  • Bit of Gym
  • Cranked some Pranqsters
  • Headed to the Mission District
  • Paprika
    • Epic food
    • Das Boot
  • El Techo De Lolinda
    • Roof bar
    • Vibey
    • Great Margaritas

2 May - Day 6

  • Checkout from Hotel
  • Walk to get Ali and Sams clothes washed
  • Brainwash Landromat and Cafe ... :P
  • Cable Car Ride to Fishermans Wharf
    • Crazy anti-circumcision people
    • Crazy preacher man
  • Good food on the Wharf(Aliotos)
  • Walk up Lombart St... see the "Curvy Road"
  • Swensens Icecream - EPIC
  • Check into the Hostel
  • Met bunch of people
  • Went out to Mr Smiths Hip Hop Club

3 May - Sunday - Day 7

  • Bottomless Mimossas with Nick, Mare, William and Kelly
    • 2 each
    • 10 bottles of champagne
  • Loving Cup Ice-cream even more epic!
  • Go to Nicks place (puf)
    • meet their frenchie "Hubert"
  • Walk around with Kelly and Will
    • they give me an awesome insider tour and some of the history
    • Fire burning most of city
    • Saved by few critical fire hydrants
    • They are painted silver
    • Explains the older buildings in lower haight
  • Amazing sound store with just insane kit!!
  • Visit Dick ... famous Soul record shop (Riccardos Rooky Records)
  • Fetch their frenchie "Gambit"
  • Walk around the park and see the "Painted Ladies"
  • Head off and have some amazing sushi at Nara's sushi
  • Smugglers cove ... strong rum drinks!
  • End the evening by going to Zeitgeist bar

4 May - Day 8

  • Epic walk around the city
  • Japantown
  • Filmore center
  • Cafe Flore
  • Saturn and Vulcan street stairs
  • Twin peaks (freezing, far and windy)
  • Giant baseball game
  • Koz Kar (kids shows mixwed with hardcore porn)

5 May - Day 9

  • Rent mustang!
  • Lands End
  • China Beach
  • Sea Cliff (the most amazing houses I have seen)
  • Drive to San Jose
    • Facebook
    • Google
    • Apple
  • Eat Jack-in-the-Box (disgusting)
  • Traffic Jams
  • Wave Organ
  • Watch sunset under the bridge
  • Place of Fine Arts building (incredible structures)
  • Driving around San Fran
  • Drive Lombart Street
  • 10 gallons of juice or 40 dollars i.e R440

6 May - Day 10##

  • Slow morning was storing out stuff on laptop
  • Drive out to Napa Valley (plan was to go wine tasting)
  • Sonoma Raceway
  • Drift Event and Drags!! very excite
  • Dinner at Lolindas
    • Very nice
    • awkward blind data
    • Huge bill
    • Still was fun

7 May - Day 11

  • Walked and Cable car'd around
  • Chinatown
    • Had a bubble tea... still shit in US
  • Financial District
    • Epic buildings
    • Corporate
    • many Suits
  • Pier 1 and 2
  • Ferry Building
  • Oakland Bay Bridge
  • Dinner at Leopards with Nick, Marie, Will, Kelly + 2
    • Awesome german food
  • Walked the frenchies
  • Had a couple drinks
  • Said goodbye
  • Hostel peeps drinking heavy
  • Go out and get smashed
    • Seppes birthday
    • Mayes

8 May - Day 12

  • Checkout
  • Hungover