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canyonwalker24 hours after getting home last night from a day trip to Phoenix I headed back out on the road. It's another business trip. This one's longer at 2 days/2 nights but also closer to home, in San Francisco. I'm working a trade show.
I mulled my options on the best way to get to SF for this trip. Parking in SF is expensive, so it seemed like the most logical choice was to use transit. But taking transit would require walking a mile to the train station, then connecting between three trains— CalTrain to BART to a cable car!— or taking one train followed by either a bus or an Uber/Lyft across town.
This morning as I took stock of my schedule for the day, with several meetings and just enough time to catch up on stuff from yesterday and last week, I decided, Fuck it, I don't have time for transit. I would drive instead.
I further decided that instead of leaving around 4 I would drive after dinner. Pushing the schedule later— and allowing nearly 24 hours at home instead of 20— made a huge difference in my state of mind this afternoon. I got all my meetings and followups done by about 4, packed my suitcase, and then took it easy for an hour. When Hawk came home from work we went out to dinner together then played a couple quick rounds of Wingspan at home. I grabbed my coat and bags and left at 8.
Leaving later also made the drive faster. It was just under an hour from home to my hotel in the Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood of SF. And that includes driving across the city— exiting I-80 at 4th Street, going north on 3rd across Market Street to Kearny Street, then left on Christopher Columbus past Chinatown and North Beach to Fisherman's Wharf. Taking transit would have taken at least twice as long in the absolute best case.
I mulled my options on the best way to get to SF for this trip. Parking in SF is expensive, so it seemed like the most logical choice was to use transit. But taking transit would require walking a mile to the train station, then connecting between three trains— CalTrain to BART to a cable car!— or taking one train followed by either a bus or an Uber/Lyft across town.
This morning as I took stock of my schedule for the day, with several meetings and just enough time to catch up on stuff from yesterday and last week, I decided, Fuck it, I don't have time for transit. I would drive instead.
I further decided that instead of leaving around 4 I would drive after dinner. Pushing the schedule later— and allowing nearly 24 hours at home instead of 20— made a huge difference in my state of mind this afternoon. I got all my meetings and followups done by about 4, packed my suitcase, and then took it easy for an hour. When Hawk came home from work we went out to dinner together then played a couple quick rounds of Wingspan at home. I grabbed my coat and bags and left at 8.
Leaving later also made the drive faster. It was just under an hour from home to my hotel in the Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood of SF. And that includes driving across the city— exiting I-80 at 4th Street, going north on 3rd across Market Street to Kearny Street, then left on Christopher Columbus past Chinatown and North Beach to Fisherman's Wharf. Taking transit would have taken at least twice as long in the absolute best case.
