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Another San Jose Adventure

DAY 5 For breakfast Scott and I split our treats from Tartine. I picked out a frangipagne or as the guy there called it fraan-gee-pan. I picked a coconut cream tart. This was pretty good, but very rich.  Us comparing bellies or something. They did this all week. It was raining in the morning and was supposed to all day (plus our legs were like bricks), so we decided to go back to San Francisco tomorrow and spend the day in San Jose. We knew it was going to rain either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, so I guess it was no surprise that we lost on one day in the big city. We thought we'd get out of the house and eat somewhere downtown. Some of the main streets are cute enough, but there are a lot vacant buildings. Seeing as San Jose has the largest population in the bay area, but's it sprawls across the south bay. I hope that their downtown sees better times.  Scott had commented on Teske's a few days ago so I suggested there. Katie said th...

San Francisco, So Many Hills, Never Enough Ice Cream

DAY 4 Katie had the day off to spend with us. We walked quickly to the train station to make the last bullet train to San Francisco. It's a relatively quick trip, but you shouldn't call any train a bullet, unless it averages 175 mph. Just saying. We really had no plans for the day except to wander the city. Again, that's what I call a vacation. Plan for the unplanned.  Scott and Katrina had been here before, but it was my first time.  I didn't realize there were so many different forms of public transportation here. I like that they still use all the old cars from other cities. This one was the Twin Cities one. It's also kind of sad that all these cities don't use them anymore. These PCC cars were from the last decade of the Twin City Lines' existence  Since they were in very good shape, they were sold to far-flung places like Mexico City and Newark. The cars that now ride along Market Street were sent from New...