The journey to this side of the world was pretty hectic. Four airports and 28 hours... Hyderabad, Singapore, Seoul, San Francisco... It has been two days in the US and no jet lag has happened to me yet. That's super good as I have been able to utilise all the little time I have to see around.
I checked into Hilton, around 1pm on Monday, 28th April. Without even taking any time to rest, three girls and two guys in our group sneaked away to a place called Gilroy. We used public transport to get to the place, and it was a 1.25 hours drive. The bus reminded me of the ones I saw in Dubai.
It is a place full of cheap shopping stores - the outlet stores as they say. I bought nothing much, ended up converting all the time, and the rest you know.
The conference for which I traveled started on Tuesday. Lectures at a stretch are boring, but manageable. In the afternoon, we bunked one such session and went for a walk to downtown, San Jose. It was beautiful. San Jose is a serene place with very less (or absolutely none) skyscrapers. Flat buildings, empty roads, less traffic, beautiful trams.. We saw a church in one of the lanes.
The evening was pretty busy with the Google Idol competition and the Google party. I was kinda bored because of the music that I could not relate to. Can rock music be called music at all?
Wednesday was pretty happening considering I bunked the whole of afternoon from the conference! We visited Walmart and Kohls stores and did shopping for some petty stuff (spent quite some dollars though)! By the time I walked and covered those two huge stores, I was tired to the core. Without even having dinner, I sunk into bed.
Thursday morning, we checked out of Hilton and started off to San Bruno. That is the home of YouTube where Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have set up a beautiful office for the online video sharing monster. Though under the ownership of Google, YT is pretty much on its own here in Cherry Avenue. Google headquarters in Mountainview is an hour away from here.
Right now, I am done with half a day of our global YouTube conference which YouTubers from across the globe (Japan, Korea, Ireland, Argentina) are attending. Today evening, we have an official team dinner at Kuleto's Trattoria, Burlingame.
We have another day of conference on Friday, sigh! On Friday evening and Saturday, we are planning to cover San Francisco, the happening city. And late night Saturday, we are off back to Hyderabad. There is a halt at Singapore for about 8 hours, and will see some of that city too! :)
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