On Friday, we left for San Francisco at about 4:45. We took an alternate to the I-5 through Tacoma in order to beat traffic and it seems like we were somewhat successful. Having only to stop for dinner and gas in Oregon, and Northern California (holy crap it was expensive! $2.679/gallon), we made it to Vacaville, which is 50 miles outside of San Francisco by 4:30AM in the morning. I was going to have a great Saturday considering I slept 30 minutes the entire night.

We stopped off at the local iHop for some breakfast and then headed on our way to Stanford University after another stop for gas. The car ahead of us called back (wow cellphones were so useful on this trip) saying that once you get on the road to Stanford there is only one gas station and it was like $2.729/gallon or something. So we filled up in South San Francisco and went on our way.

Stanford University was not exactly what I expected. The buildings were all in a Spanish style; I had expected something classical and British. Aside from that, their campus was pretty nice with palm trees all around (side note: I didn’t expect there to be that palm trees so far north!). We spent some time there and of course I took a lot of pictures. I’ve posted the photos from my trip tagged with San Francisco

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: bayarea, diary, travelling