In the last post I talked about arriving in Boston. I’ve deliberately skipped the reason we were in Boston – and in San Francisco afterwards, too – as I’ll cover those in an upcoming post.
I do want to spend some time talking about what we did between Boston and SF, though. When I originally looked at the options for this trip, I first thought about spending the weekend in Baltimore with my son: it turns out he’s in full-on exam period, though, so it wouldn’t have been the best time to visit, to say the least. Besides that he’ll be back in Switzerland in roughly 3 weeks, so it didn’t make much sense to make the detour.
I also wanted to get onto Pacific time as quickly as possible, as that would help with the jetlag ahead of Tuesday's SF event. One option was heading directly to SF, but when we looked into hotels there was a) poor availability in the city itself and b) what there was was *really* expensive. (I’ve since found out the reason was an RSA conference at the…