14 October 2018
Most of today was spent shopping at CostCo and various shops like Macys, TJ Maxx and Best Buys. This is what we are destined to do for the next few days as San Francisco is our last stop before returning to Kuala Lumpur.
See Hack sent through some nice pictures of us from yesterday's outing and I will belatedly post them here.
See Hack sent through some nice pictures of us from yesterday's outing and I will belatedly post them here.
For mum and WT it was 2 and a half days of shopping for pressies and things.
I purchased a couple of electronics that was close enough to half the price in Malaysia, saving thousands.
Another bag had to be acquired to transport the purchases.
15 October 2018
It was Monday and See Hack had to be at work. I'd arranged to meet John Booth and Mike Kirkaldy in Fisherman's Wharf for lunch at 1pm. They were hosting a customer from New Zealand at the IBM offices in San Francisco.
Han dropped me off at the BART, and it was an hour's ride into the city. The guys were late getting in from their flight, so lunch was delayed till 2pm. This was to be at The Pub on Beach Street in the Ghiradelli Square. I went to the San Francisco Brewing Company next door to sample some of their fine brews to make productive use of my waiting time.
Soon we made it to the very pleasant meat friendly pub with nice views over Crissy Park and that part of the bay.
Spare ribs and beer were consumed. John, of course, had phone calls to take and meetings to join, leaving Mike and I to exchange news.
Then it was time for them to fill shopping requests from home, and I walked them to their rental car office. They were off to the mall in Livermore.
Han picked me up at the Warm Springs Bart station. We went out for a Hakka dinner that night.
16/17 October 2018
We are flying out of San Francisco tomorrow morning at 1.20 am. So we have to make our way to SFO at 10 pm today.
Some last minute purchases were made from CostCo this morning, and I took the opportunity make some purchases to partly refill the hole I left in See Hack's cellar.
There was no way to do this due to the amount of wine drunk, and still drinking. Han cooked dinner that night.
See Hack ordered a limo for us, and his regular driver Sam picked us up. For USD 135 we were safely delivered to SFO.
I could not remember there being passport control and I could not find in or out stamps on our passport. EVA Air boarding was very efficient and doors were closed 10 mins before the scheduled departure time.
The 3 am dinner didn't work for us and was declined. This, of course, meant we didn't have food till lunch time, and the very bad breakfast was totally consumed.
It was 12.5 hours to Taipei. While the transit queues in Taipei was long, security here was less anal about shoes, laptops and belts, so we moved quickly into the waiting lounge. In the 3-hour wait, we bought duty free and had dinner.
The second leg - 5 hour flight - felt like 6 hours because we spent an hour sitting on the tarmac due to Taipei control.
Our Grab driver Patrick was 5 mins away from our arrival gate, and his MPV took our 4 big and 2 little bags easily. By 4 pm KL time, we were home, having travelled about 27 hours in total. I could smell my feet, so a shower was prioritised over beer.
I purchased a couple of electronics that was close enough to half the price in Malaysia, saving thousands.
Another bag had to be acquired to transport the purchases.
15 October 2018
It was Monday and See Hack had to be at work. I'd arranged to meet John Booth and Mike Kirkaldy in Fisherman's Wharf for lunch at 1pm. They were hosting a customer from New Zealand at the IBM offices in San Francisco.
Han dropped me off at the BART, and it was an hour's ride into the city. The guys were late getting in from their flight, so lunch was delayed till 2pm. This was to be at The Pub on Beach Street in the Ghiradelli Square. I went to the San Francisco Brewing Company next door to sample some of their fine brews to make productive use of my waiting time.
Spare ribs and beer were consumed. John, of course, had phone calls to take and meetings to join, leaving Mike and I to exchange news.
Han picked me up at the Warm Springs Bart station. We went out for a Hakka dinner that night.
16/17 October 2018
We are flying out of San Francisco tomorrow morning at 1.20 am. So we have to make our way to SFO at 10 pm today.
Some last minute purchases were made from CostCo this morning, and I took the opportunity make some purchases to partly refill the hole I left in See Hack's cellar.
I could not remember there being passport control and I could not find in or out stamps on our passport. EVA Air boarding was very efficient and doors were closed 10 mins before the scheduled departure time.
The 3 am dinner didn't work for us and was declined. This, of course, meant we didn't have food till lunch time, and the very bad breakfast was totally consumed.
It was 12.5 hours to Taipei. While the transit queues in Taipei was long, security here was less anal about shoes, laptops and belts, so we moved quickly into the waiting lounge. In the 3-hour wait, we bought duty free and had dinner.
The second leg - 5 hour flight - felt like 6 hours because we spent an hour sitting on the tarmac due to Taipei control.
Our Grab driver Patrick was 5 mins away from our arrival gate, and his MPV took our 4 big and 2 little bags easily. By 4 pm KL time, we were home, having travelled about 27 hours in total. I could smell my feet, so a shower was prioritised over beer.
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