travel - A village called San Francisco


Some post-conference entertainment. Fellow blogger Patrick Delaney took me along for a tour of San Francisco and of course the Golden Bridge was on the agenda. San Francisco has a poor 700,000 inhabitants, rather small compared to the 20 million in Shanghai. The wealth that has gathered here in de past two decades during the high tech era mainly came to the Bay Area because of the proximity of the universities like Stanford where many of the companies started.
I was lucky enough to catch one of the 20 sunny days in San Francisco: most of the time it is foggy and cold, so quite different from LA, where I hope to arrive tomorrow together with Andrew Lih. USC's Annenberg School of Journalism is one of our targets for later in the week.