Back from San Fran

We spent a good chunk of the day there yesterday. The weather was great, too bad we didn't have any time to really go and explore. Our hotel was right near the airport and therefore did not really allow us the opportunity to explore around. Plus I needed some much needed rest after not a very good nights sleep.

We were put up for the day in Hyatt near the airport. One word.. Pimp. It was a pretty nice hotel, but do to our short stay I didn't get to see anything more than the check in desk and the backside of my eyelids in the room.

The airport is incredibly busy. It is a huge international hub, with airlines from all around the world taking off and landing every 30 seconds, 2 at a time on a set of 4 runways. Just standing on the tarmac I couldn't help but just stand and stare at the massive activity all around me.

On our departure out, we were turned to track right by downtown and the golden gate bridge. Too bad my camera was in the back with the luggage. My new camera takes a mean picture, but it's also not very practical for a quick point and shoot application. I should have taken my smaller digicam to take some quick take off and landing pics of the area. It was a rare beautiful day in San Fran and all the fog was being kept offshore by a few miles, leaving the city out in the open. Quite neat though to see all the fog just off the shore as it stretches for miles and miles up and down the coast and quite a distance out to sea.

Today was a day of rest and then tomorrow I'm off with a full plane load of passengers to Monterey Bay California, then a quick hope over to Napa Valley to bring another full load of different passengers into Calgary and Edmonton. So it will be another full day of flying, but thankfully it only begins at noon and does not require me to awake too early. I deal a lot better with later evening flights than I do with early morning ones. So it doesn't phase me that tomorrow we'll be landing back in Calgary after midnight, whereas I'd be not too happy if it was a 6am start to the day!