Thread: What not to miss in San Francisco - San Jose area

Yeap. I'm still in the bay area.

Another famous university - Berkeley campus.

Originally Posted by CoffeeCup

Yep. I'm still in the bay area.

Another famous university - Berkeley campus.

Привет,
Когда Я буль там, very large Russian community. I will suggest Monterey, Carmel-by-the-Sea, and Big Sur

pigeon point lighthouse

Coast line between San Francisco and Santa Cruz

Cypresses at the 17 mile drive. The image is not distorted. The trees really grow this way.

The "Lone Cypress".

Coit Tower

San Francisco city view from Coit tower.

The view to the Lombard street from the Coit tower.

Coffeecup! These photos are great. Thanks for sharing them.

1. How has the trip been for you?
2. How are your English speaking skills doing?
3. Have you found the perfect coffee shop yet?
4. How are people treating you in general?
5. Do you find it easy to navigate around?
6. What have you seen so far that you have been most impressed with?

I know... too many questions!!!

The trip is going well and approaches the end soon.

As for English skills it turned out to be a great conspiracy. Most people I was interacting with were native Russians. Almost in every restaurant or coffee shop I heard Russian from here or there. Even visiting the DMV web site to get a Californian driver's handbook I was granted the option to download it in Russian. But thanks God there was an exposing to English I could not avoid. I'm talking about the driving rules. Did I said that I got the driver's handbook in Russian? Actually it turned out that there is not much to read in this book because, god only knows why, Americans prefer to write the rules directly on the road signs while other terrestrials, and I bet extraterrestrials too, prefer pictograms. Well, not a big deal, if you can read a poem of "War and Peace" length posted on a tableau driving through a freeway at a rainy night.

Turning to coffee I must confess that I miss the coffee that I used to in Novosibirsk. But to the honour of all the Americans I'm pleased to say that the best coffee in Novosibirsk is produced by an American guy who founded the net of coffee shops "Travelers coffee".

Having a gps navigator in the car along with a couple of navigating apps in the mobile phone it is pretty easy to navigate around here. Sometimes I covered a couple of hundrend miles a day and never had even a glimpse thought that I can be lost somewhere. What was realy hard in my navigation experience is to find a place to park a car in San Francisco. That is really a quest.

Most impressed I was while seeing the ocean's coast line. That is a fantastic view. I really would love to live in such a place.

CoffeeCup, if you are still there... this was just posted on CNN today...go check it out!!

If you crave fries in San Francisco, Jasper's Corner Tap is a natural choice. But your decisions aren't over yet. Will it be thin, thick, or sweet potato? Do you try the smoked-paprika seasoning or a cheese curd-based poutine, or play it safe with sea salt? There's an entire menu devoted to customizable fries at your fingertips. French fries are one of the true crowd-pleasers -- a food that friends agree upon, that turns up at both five-star steakhouses and roadside dives, and that is familiar but can also surprise you. They can be cut thick or curly, cooked with or without skins, served Belgian-style in paper cones or in a parchment-lined basket with malt vinegar on the side. No matter how you slice it, the deep-fried spud is king.

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