The Journey

I made it to San Francisco! Things are going well so far. After some errands and one last slice of Antonio's, I left for Bradley yesterday afternoon. My mom drove me to the airport and came with me to check in....this went really smoothly despite the new security issues, and I was all checked (both bags) and through security in about 10 minutes. No problems at all. Bradley has free wireless which was nice, and then I ran into a girl named Kim from Tufts, so I chatted with her for a while as we waited for the flight to board. The flight to Dallas was pretty uneventful, I started reading the book "Prep" by Curtis Sittenfield...I read practically the whole flight, with the occasional pause to look out the window at the Great Lakes and some nice, flat states.

In Dallas, the wireless internet is not free, so I didn't use it. To get from Terminal B to Terminal D, I took the new Skytrain. It's pretty fast and goes high up (above all the terminals). I was a bit concerned by how rickety it felt....a lot like the Green Line in Boston...a little strange considering it's a brand new monorail.

On my flight from Dallas to San Francisco I sat in the emergency exit row which was good. I sat next to a man from Bangalore who works for Oracle in Texas. He didn't seem to want to talk about Bangalore (I told him I was there last fall) so we didn't. I read more, then tried to sleep.

I got to San Francisco on time, and Russ was there to pick me up. My bags also made it to San Francisco, but it took 45 minutes for everyone's bags to arrive at the baggage claim area. Strange. Anyway, it's good to be here. San Francisco seems really cool so far (although I haven't seen much yet). Now it's time to seriously start looking for jobs. I'm currently in the Inner Sunset neighborhood, things are pretty quiet here (at least in the mornings). It's 10:40 AM right now and it looks like the fog is starting to clear.

That's about all for now...hopefully I'll put up some pictures sometime soon.