From Canberra to San Francisco

[harvyk]

Sorry Belvin Alley was a typo. It's actually called Belden Alley (or place).

It's off Bush St inbetween Kearny St and Montgomery St. Don't bother trying to find it during the day as it looks like any other dark alley. At night however it'll be very easy to spot as there are fairy lights (and tables \ chairs) everywhere.

 

[file51]

In regards to the Sakura Lounge at SFO I have only been in there a few times, but they have always had something in the way of food.

Most notably, last Monday night they had the nicest/freshest sandwiches I have ever had in an airline lounge, plus a good range of sushi rolls and inari.

Liquor range wasnt too exciting, however I managed to find a bottle of Canadian Club whisky hiding in the corner which was promptly mixed with some ice and lemonade (or should I say 7UP)... YUM...

SFO is one of my favourite west coast airports as it is very open, new (Intl terminal anyway) and there never seems to be a line at security going out, or Customs coming in.

Sounds like you had an awesome trip and will be keeping an eye out for some of the places you visited when I am back there in 64 days time... (who's counting)

 

[harvyk]

Most notably, last Monday night they had the nicest/freshest sandwiches I have ever had in an airline lounge, plus a good range of sushi rolls and inari.

Yeah I was kinda looking forwards to things like sushi rolls. It could have been I just went there on a bad night, and it's not reflective of the club in general.

Yeah, SFO was excellent for customs coming in, and security going out. It took no more than 5 minutes to get through security outbound, and that was without any sort of express pass or flashing of FF cards (which is what I've done in the past the skip the queues)