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\n \t<\/a>\n\t\t <\/div>\n <\/center><\/p>\nAfter the meeting we hopped in the rental (Sebring convertible)…<\/p>\n
\n \t<\/a>\n\t\t <\/div>\n <\/center><\/p>\n…and made our way up highway 101 into San Francisco! Here’s the Bay Bridge, one of the old-style trollies, the small yellow buggies you can rent to tour the town, and some of the nicer government buildings we passed while driving around:<\/p>\n
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<\/a> <\/a><\/center><\/p>\nWe couldn’t call ourselves tourists without visiting the Golden Gate bridge, so as soon as we saw it in the distance we had to head on over. Here’s Kulwant taking us across: we were lucky that it was a nice day so we could have the top down…<\/p>\n
<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/center><\/p>\nWe took a lot of pictures from the lookout on the North end of the bridge…<\/p>\n
<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n…then found gaps in the throng of other tourists…<\/p>\n
\n \t<\/a>\n\t\t <\/div>\n <\/center><\/p>\n…to also gets pics with the skyline of San Francisco in the background…<\/p>\n
<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/center><\/p>\nIt was getting late and a bit chilly… so we put the roof back up on the car and sped back to the airport to catch our return flight to Toronto. Oh, with a quick stop at Taco Bell for some food since you don’t get anything on the plane anymore. (ask Kulwant about the Burrito he took as carry-on luggage \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Early this week I had to take a really short trip to San Francisco with my friend+coworker Kulwant… to attend a 2-hour meeting… that’s business for you \ud83d\ude42 . It was worth it! Not only to visit the customer… but Continue reading A Short Trip to the West Coast…<\/span>