Question to SF Bay Area peeps

[davidlevine]

We'll be buying our plane tickets for Potlatch very shortly. We'd like to spend a few days in the area before or after the convention, so we can see some Bay Area people, sights, and events rather than just the con.

The purpose of this post is to ask this: are you aware of anything happening before or after the con that would lead us to prefer one over the other? (Performers coming to town, major local traffic-generating events to avoid, etc.)

Comments

[calimac.livejournal.com]

You probably know - but I'll pass it along anyway because I've already been asked this question by others, and the info is going in PR3 - that you should fly to San Jose (SJC) for ease of access to the hotel unless you're planning on spending your pre- or post-con time in other parts of the Bay Area.

If you haven't done so in the past, I'd recommend touristing to the south, which many visitors to the Bay Area don't get to. There's interesting wineries up in the mountains if you care for that sort of thing, and the area of Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Carmel are well worth visiting. San Juan Bautista, ever been there? That's where the climax of Vertigo was filmed. Nobody I've taken there has ever seen the movie.