Trip to San Francisco

I'm back from a professional trip to San Francisco, my first visit to that city. I just missed an anti-war march--the group planned to parade through the Union Square area where I was staying, but they started one hour after I left for the airport.

I did sit beside a nice gentleman on one leg of the flight home who works for an airline whose primary job is to shuttle soldiers to and from Iraq; his basic route is Ft. Still, OK; Bangor, ME; Frankfurt; Kuwait. He seemed to enjoy his job a lot.

This is the first trip I can remember in several years in which I did not see any soldiers in uniform in the airport, and I was in three of them in California--San Francisco, John Wayne, and LAX.

If you need recommendations for Chinese or Italian restaurants in San Francisco, I've got them!