Audible - Brendan McKenna

If you’d like a few tips regards San Francisco, here goes:

You can reserve a Super Shuttle from either of the big airports to wherever you want to go from these guys: http://www.supershuttle.com/ , it’s a really good service and a pretty good way to do the 20/30 min journey.

There are a bunch of interesting and beautiful neighbourhoods in San Francisco, the most famous district is Fishermans Wharf where you can take ferries to Alcatraz or Sausalito (the little bayside village on the north side of the gg bridge).

Haight Ashbury is really close to where I live and is the legendary home of the 60’s hippie revolution, it’s full of vintage and funky stores and is quite fun.

Coit Tower, Yerba Buena Island, The Presidio, Golden Gate Bridge, North Beach and Twin Peaks are all nice spots to see and will be super memories, a great way to catch a lot of these in one day is to bike from Fishermans Wharf along the north shore, past the famous Fort Mason and Marina District through Crissy fields and by the Palace of Fine arts as far as Fort Point (a great viewpoint thats just below the Golden Gate Bridge), that would be a one or two hour ride, with plenty of nice places to get Ice Cream along the way, if your legs can take some more, it’s totally worth biking up the trail to the golden gate bridge entrance where you can bike across to the Marin Headlands, there’s a good vista point just beyond the end of the bridge, but for a REALLY awesome view, continue past the vista point and take the first right, go left under the freeway and continue up the hill, it’s absolutely worth it.

Also, remember to see the Cable Cars, Transamerica Building, Vesuvio, The Mission, The Castro, Pacific Heights, the Museum of Modern Art, The De Young, the Conservatory of flowers, phew! I’m out of breath, so better run on, I hope this mail is helpful and wish you good travels!

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I got the privilege today of visiting the wondrous Rubin Museum of Art in New York at 17th street and 7th avenue.
It’s the only Museum in the world dedicated to himalayan art, and founded two and a half years ago by Donald and Shelley Rubin. You must visit it when you come to New York.

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I had an awesome cycle in Oakland today, so in honor of that part of the bay area, here’s an appropriate song, listen for the guy whispering in the background at 2 minutes, it could be the producer dying to have his voice on the track!

 Kenny Loggins plays the Danger Zone [3:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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With two mini-me dogs the size of wienerschnitzels barking at each other beside me, I write this post;

I had a really pleasant flight up from LA and it took such a short time! The sun was setting and there was a really gorgeous rainbow of colors in the sky, the airline I used is called frontier and is really good, they serve nice drinks, use small planes (22 rows) and have live satellite tv (directv) for each seat. I was halfway through an nbc show that I’d begun before take off when the pilot said we’re 30 minutes outside SF and beginning our descent. I was shocked and delighted, getting between SF and LA is so easy by plane and just makes me happier that I’ve postponed my flight to Dublin. I called Rye and Ewan at the hostel and let them know I’ll be in tonight and they were surprised and happy.

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