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.

Didn't see that one coming

(from last night's travels)

Flying west tonight with Pete on US Air instead of on our scheduled flight on Delta. Got to the airport in Myrtle Beach planning to fly to Atlanta and then to San Jose with a scheduled arrival time of 9:00 pm. Instead we are flying US Air through Charlotte to San Francisco with an ETA of 11:00 pm. And then a late night taxi to San Jose for the start of tomorrow's conference. As the helpful Delta agent in Myrtle Beach was rebooking us due to blown Delta connections, she asked us if we were "from here?" "Yes," we told her. "Oh," she said, a bit surprised, "I never fly out of Myrtle Beach. I always drive to Charleston." Who knew?

On our first flight of the day, Pete and I went through the outstanding three day agenda deciding which of us would go to which sessions. We've got a game plan mapped out. Looking forward to sharing what we learn with everyone when we get back.