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Ask HN: How can I experience SF and Silicon Valley in two weeks?

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Re: Ask HN: How can I experience SF and Silicon Valley in two weeks?

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SF: Spend a night doing coke with the ladies at Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre, bring lots of money...stumble home stepping around the street relics. Don't loose your phone. Goto some snobish coffee shops while hung over. This is about as SF as you can get. (spoken from experience) San Jose: Rent a car and park on the 101. Cruise the suburbs and price snap houses for shock and entertainment!

don't forget about the irish coffees and overpriced mediocre croissants. or pretending not to be alcoholics at brunch the next morning, with 5 of your closest enablers, slamming bottomless mimosas and bloody marys. do this while talking about work, and how drunk you got last night, and how amazing the benedict is while posting pictures of it to instagram, even though you can barely taste it after waiting 90 minutes in line for the privilege of paying $75 per person not including tip and the foodservice healthcare surcharge.

Re: Ask HN: How can I experience SF and Silicon Valley in two weeks?

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SF: Spend a night doing coke with the ladies at Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre, bring lots of money...stumble home stepping around the street relics. Don't loose your phone. Goto some snobish coffee shops while hung over. This is about as SF as you can get. (spoken from experience) San Jose: Rent a car and park on the 101. Cruise the suburbs and price snap houses for shock and entertainment!

don't forget about the irish coffees and overpriced mediocre croissants. or pretending not to be alcoholics at brunch the next morning, with 5 of your closest enablers, slamming bottomless mimosas and bloody marys. do this while talking about work, and how drunk you got last night, and how amazing the benedict is while posting pictures of it to instagram, even though you can barely taste it after waiting 90 minutes i…

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Re: Ask HN: How can I experience SF and Silicon Valley in two weeks?

#14

SF: Spend a night doing coke with the ladies at Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre, bring lots of money...stumble home stepping around the street relics. Don't loose your phone. Goto some snobish coffee shops while hung over. This is about as SF as you can get. (spoken from experience) San Jose: Rent a car and park on the 101. Cruise the suburbs and price snap houses for shock and entertainment!

This sounds like a perfect night out. The SF part. Not the San Jose part.

Re: Ask HN: How can I experience SF and Silicon Valley in two weeks?

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Visit the Computer history museum and try to resist the impulse to hugh the Cray-1. The tech in San Jose is also interesting. Try to visit a state park or natural reserve nearby. Visit Carmel and point lobos (2hr drive from SF), Half Moon bay...

Pt. Reyes Lighthouse and Cafe Reyes (at Point Reyes Station on the way). Gorgeous views. Take 101 off Sir Francis Drake (the exit comes up on you very quick so pay attention).

Re: Ask HN: How can I experience SF and Silicon Valley in two weeks?

#19
Grab a Getaround or Zipcar and get north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Everyone only goes as far a Muir woods - don't it's packed of tourists with visor caps and selfie sticks and you'll get annoyed. Drive a little further and Hike Mount Tam - amazing views of the bay. Go to Sonoma for wine, not Napa.

Re: Ask HN: How can I experience SF and Silicon Valley in two weeks?

#20

SF: Spend a night doing coke with the ladies at Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theatre, bring lots of money...stumble home stepping around the street relics. Don't loose your phone. Goto some snobish coffee shops while hung over. This is about as SF as you can get. (spoken from experience) San Jose: Rent a car and park on the 101. Cruise the suburbs and price snap houses for shock and entertainment!

This sounds like a perfect night out. The SF part. Not the San Jose part.

for many, the san jose part comes on monday morning.
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