Don't! I have spent the odd night in California before, a couple of nights in SanFrancisco on the way back from China and a night [ very eventful, Aussie crumpet met on the plane from Houston] going out, but never any extended time. Just finished a three week project staying in San Pablo about 40 miles north of SF. Had plenty of time off to look around, what an absolute $hithole!!

Overcrowded, expensive, noisy, dirty, roads crammed with idiots, beggars and panhandlers every freaking where, forget sitting outside a coffee shop or restuarant, the scum bags are all over you.

The background is spectacular, mountains, hills, the bay, the ocean, but the on ground reality is a freaking nightmare.

Very sad.

Thank God for Texas.

Yeah har, throw another log cabin on the fire.