san fran

Evening folks.

So we've been playing some ultimate here in San Francisco, but we've been doing some other stuff too.

We jumped off the plane and organised some vans to get around. Driving along the freeways north from the airport was a good way of taking in the lie of the land quickly. We arrived at the City College campus and threw the disc around on an artificial football field - very spongy. It is situated on the side of a hill and is open to a lot of wind. The temperature might have hit 15 degrees, but it felt more like 5 with the cool wind. Matt tried to explain the weather system hanging over the SF peninsula, but I didn't take it all in - something do do with hot air going up and cold air going down. So we've noticed that some spots in the bay area can be pretty cold, some areas pretty warm.

Later on Friday, our car (Owen, Dan, Joel and Ant and I) drove over to Golden State Park to play disc golf with Mike and Woody, our generous host. It is a permanent course in the middle of a huge and heavily wooded park. The course is a permanent addition to the park and well set up. It doesn't present the aquatic obstacles of the mac uni or queenscliff courses of Sydney, but was very challenging nonetheless. Pars were a rareity for us.

Saturday we drove to the city for some shopping before heading east over the bay bridge to Berkeley for an afternoon with Jam. Downtown Berkeley is pretty lively and welcoming. We shared a few pizzas and beers with the Jam lads (thanks Greg) before heading west again to the cooler climes of the city area. The night finished at Zeitgeist, a bar with a lot of character and patrons with an equally vibrant attitude.

More soon.