M@ Around The World

After the summer Corporate Audit Staff conference in 2007, my friend Taufan (who I affectionately refer to as "T") and I took a long-awaited trip to San Francisco, CA for Labor Day weekend prior to starting our end-of-year reviews. We arrived in Palo Alto, CA (just south of San Francisco) late on Thurs the 30th of Aug and stayed in the Westin near Stanford University. Throughout the weekend our travels took us to San Francisco, Sausalito, the Muir Woods Monument (Marin County), Monterey, and Half Moon Bay. A local girl we met on Sat night told us we saw the “real” California (as opposed to Los Angeles). :) I’ll include some pictures throughout this blog entry, but feel free to check out the several albums uploaded to http://pictures.brooksny.net . There are some videos interspersed throughout them as well. Aug 31: Stanford U, San Francisco, Sausalito Our first day of adventuring began early in the morning of Fri, Aug 31. T had spent many summers growing up in the San Francisc...