{"id":179,"date":"2008-08-08T14:34:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T18:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=179"},"modified":"2008-08-24T23:32:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T03:32:43","slug":"upcoming-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Vacation!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going on a well-deserved vacation in a couple of weeks.\u00a0 I am going to go home for a few days and I am also going to San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part I: Chattanooga<\/strong><br \/>\nTaking Dana to Chattanooga to stay at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo over a weekend.\u00a0 We are going to stay in one of the Victorian Train Cars and do much of the &#8220;tourist&#8221; activities on Lookout Mountain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part II: Huntsville<\/strong><br \/>\nGoing to Huntsville for a Monday afternoon before flying out on a very early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part III: San Francisco<\/strong><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t care too much for air travel &#8230;well, the part before take-off.\u00a0 Getting to the airport, getting through security, getting on the plane and I have to change planes in Charlotte both ways.\u00a0 I decided to rent a car since my hotel is near SFO at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylandinghotel.com\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Landing Hotel<\/a>.\u00a0 I plan to go down to the San Jose area.\u00a0 I may take public transportation to SF since I heard that parking near the Wharf is limited and metered.\u00a0 I am going to drive across the Golden Gate Bridge, however, there is a toll getting back into SF over the GG Bridge&#8230; cheesy!<\/p>\n<p>Flying to San Francisco on Tuesday the 19th of August for 3 days\/2 nights.\u00a0 Leaving early on Tuesday and coming back on a red-eye flight on Thursday to maximize my time in SF.\u00a0 I am going to go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\" target=\"_blank\">Apple HQ in Cupertino<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intel.com\/museum\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Intel Museum<\/a>, possibly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digibarn.com\" target=\"_blank\">DigiBarn Computer Museum<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerhistory.org\" target=\"_blank\">Computer History Museaum<\/a>, and Silicon Valley.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday the 20th of August, off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fishermanswharf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fisherman&#8217;s Wharf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/goldengatebridge.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Gate Bridge<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alcatrazcruises.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alcatraz Island<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday the 21st of August, I am not completely sure&#8230; hopefully, play this one by ear.\u00a0 Flight doesn&#8217;t leave until 10:30 or so, so I have all day to get to the airport and drop off my rental car.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part IV: Huntsville<\/strong><br \/>\nGetting back on Friday morning, I am going to spend the rest of the weekend in HSV with my Mom and visiting friends, just there an additional day.\u00a0 I will have plenty of pictures and vids to share.\u00a0 Coming back to Alpharetta on Sunday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going on a well-deserved vacation in a couple of weeks.\u00a0 I am going to go home for a few days and I am also going to San Francisco. Part I: Chattanooga Taking Dana to Chattanooga to stay at the Chattanooga &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/?p=179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmolenda.com\/oldblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}