Getting There

So, instead of arriving in San Jose at 9:30 PM, we touch down in San Francisco at 11:00 PM, collect our bags and find ourselves, compliments of Delta, boarding the “Super” Shuttle, along with a small party of felow travelers. Arriving at our hotel as the last of the drop-offs, we have had a fatigue-hazed nighttime tour of the Stanford campus, the Villages at Cupertino aka Appleland, a swish apartment complex casually at home in all that Silicon Valley wealth and a quick tour of the streets of downtown San Jose pretty much deserted except for an occasional vehicle of suspicious appearances from which one would not be surprised to see gunshots emerging. Or maybe that was just what it felt like at 2:00 AM west coast time, or 5:00 AM east coast time, about when I am usually getting up.

I think we came to SMX West to learn something about the latest and greatest in search marketing and not to provide fodder for travel writing. Only time will tell.