Day 9 Rob/Eleanor

Another really early start, too early for Texas waffles, and dropped the car off at National @ Austin airport. Played strip jack naked for the TSA and onto a small jet (size of a pea) for a four hour flight to San Francisco. 

San Francisco, warm with open blue skies (best weather ever of our few SF visits) catching the air train round to the rental centre and picked up a Honda civic for a 12 day rental. Heading off south on 101, into Silicon Valley. decided not to inflict the Computer History Museum onto Ellie again! We drove south for a gawk at Steve Job's house and Facebook HQ instead. 

On a whim, we drove north to Petaluma to see Marin & Sonoma County and have lunch (and more importantly see if we could get access to the live broadcast of This Week in Tech at Leo Laporte's studio). 

Crossed the golden Gate bridge STILL  shrouded in fog on a beautiful clear day (lol) and a great freeway drive past Sausalito and up into Sonoma county. Petaluma was quiet and homely, but bigger than expected. We had a great lunch at Zazzle, a Wagamama meets little cafe kinda vibe. Went round to the TWIT studio where we were warmly welcomed as part of a small audience to twit live stream and recording episode 325. John Dvorak and Jodie Dell were there as Leo and a Skype video in from Ed Bott who was singing the praises of living in new Mexico. We nodded in agreement!

Unfortunately we had to leave early, so we snuck off set and back in the car for a great drive back to SFO. arriving in time to park and meet Chelsea, also punctual, with zero faff and exactly as planned. Quick frappucino festival @ airport Bucks and then a drive into the night down 101 with a brief stop at apple headquarters and lots of miles through very fast moving freeway traffic across the peninsula to Monterey. Arrived at 9:30 so we had a McDonalds dinner and crashed out at the Victoria Inn, two streets back from Cannery Row.