Day 14: Goodbye Salut to San Francisco

So this years trip is coming to an end. Bawhawhaw! According to the program – I guess it is time to sum up everything in decorative, seemingly interesting, thought jamming sentences with post-ironic meaningless-to-answer-headlines.

Did we learn anything?

Well… Yes. America is great. In so many different ways.

1. It is – as always as always – difficult to get a decent cup of coffee (too bad we didn’t make it to the R&R Diner this time, I hear they have some brew).

What we didn’t do that we should have done

While we think the well researched ad-hoc way of traveling is great and provides us with many great opportunities, there is one part we se needs some work: Staying.

We are so occupied with traveling and moving that we forget about staying.

1. Problem: We always arrive late.

   Even by Japanese speed-tourist standards, our two weeks on the road was a stretch when taking the length in comparison. Going North from Salt lake City when the destination is to the south-wes even had the tourist information puzzled for a while, and the distance increased as we wanted to see more of the country. Google has estimated our final road-toll to be AAAA miles, equivalent to BB hours on the road.

   Is that much? We wouldn’t know!
   Thus we invented the Stay/Go ratio, S/G

   Kari og Knut Goes USA
   S/G ratio: CC,C

   While most of our sleepovers were in the low/medium range, we sometimes got tempted to going higher end. Arriving late means we get little out of the lodging. And that it wasn’t worth it, as we saw little or nothing of it.

   Where should we stay and where should we go?
   Decide what are the go-miles and where are the stay-places.

   Solution: Decicivness

   Stay

   • Arrive as early as possible
   • If not applicable, spend +1 day and leave early the second morning
   • Use high end lodging

   Travel

   • Travel as fast and long as possible
   • Stay as cheap and short as possible

2. Problem: When we get to a great location, we don’t really know what to do with it.

   Here I’ll give my ups to the charter planners. When we arrived in San Francisco, we used a lot of time on Yelp, finding where the restaurants and bars were in our neighborhood.

Solution:
1. Kickback

1. Day -1, Day 0, Day 1

   Å ha en bil eller andre typer tidslås/rom. Planlegg -1 dag til å undersøke

   1. Tourist information

2. Kickback

Working with it!

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I’ll try to update this thread as we go. In the meantime, here is the final salute to San Francisco, recorded in the once lavishly extraordinary Cliff House on the east coast of SF (now a little less lavish, but still in a great spot!)

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