11/22
Ditched out of the conference this afternoon and treated myself to a shoeshine from a great Italian guy named Carmelo. he made my $3.50 Johnston and Murphy shoes look like the $500 masterpieces they were before I owned them. We talked about James Bond and sunglasses. Incidentally, I saw the new James Bond movie the other night and loved it. Then I found out who directed it. No wonder. Carmelo told me that Tom Ford gave Daniel Craig ten different pairs of Sunglasses for different scenes. I walked from Union Square to Chinatown and then I got a one day pass on the cable cars. Downhill on these things is crazy, I actually brushed shoulders with a guy hanging on to a trolley going the other way!
Anyway, cruised to Fisherman’s wharf and took pictures of the seals and Alcatraz and other fun things.
Saw the famous guy who hides behind a couple of bushes and then scares people.
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I didn’t bother taking a picture because there are so many on youtube.com already. It’s sort of the way I feel about taking pictures in general. And yet, I still take them, but I try to make them unique with people (like me…lol).
I am loving the food in San Francisco. Peruvian, Pakistani, Pizza, and good bagels. I can’t believe I haven’t bee-lined to a mission burrito, but it is all so good. I feel like I’m seeing everything I want to while I am here. It’s a great city. fun to walk around and I’ve noticed that whenever I pass a guy in a fedora, we sort of tip our hats at each other and smile discretely. We know that we are gonna have a great depression and when I say great I mean fantastic. Maybe that’s what we should call this era, the Fantastic Depression. I can dig it. So can the bums, I notice fedora’s are in with the bums and as I walk by they like to tell me I’m looking good.
I’m attending a lot of great talks that I will write about on the blog later. I want the conference to be done before I start reviewing the talks I’ve seen. At least twenty five speakers and eight or nine panels so far. Exhausting, so it was nice to take a break and enjoy this great city.
Vago Damitio is the Editor in Chief of Vagobond.com and the CEO of Vagobond Travel Media. He is also a husband, father, writer, blogger, traveler, adventurer and teacher. He has spent his life mastering how to have incredible adventures on minuscule budgets. Someday he hopes to have the option of using gigantic budgets for miniscule adventures.
Vago's primary goal is to make Vagobond the best independent travel site on the web. So far, so good. 
