We walked through Chinatown en route to Ghirardelli Square…

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We wanted to take a look at the San Francisco skyline from the TransAmerica Pyramid, but the building was closed for the weekend. So we went to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel instead; the building contains a number of beautiful glass walkways over 40 stories up.

The hotel is visible in the photo below; it’s the tall building to the right of the TransAmerica Pyramid. Click the image to see the rest of the skyline photos.

We had tea at the Sheraton Palace with our friends Janet, Jennifer, and Dan. The Sheraton Palace is a grand old hotel; the photo of the interior space hardly does it justice.

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We stayed at the Stanford Court Hotel while in San Francisco. We were fortunate and had a nice view from our room…

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Holly and I drove up to Napa Valley for a day; it’s a really nice place to visit.

We visited the Sterling Vineyards Winery, partially because it has a pretty nifty sky tram from which one can see a lot of Napa Valley. The winery tour itself was pretty interesting as well; even relatively small vineyards have to work on a fairly massive scale (note the size of those tanks!)

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Several photos of the terminal at Washington National Airport (August 1997). These photos were taken within a couple of weeks of the opening of the new terminal, which is an architecturally-striking place (and a huge improvement over the dingy old terminal).

I took a business trip to Columbia, South Carolina in August 1996. I had a little extra time one afternoon, so I drove to Charleston and took a few pictures. Photos were taken with a Kodak DC50 digital camera. Click the image below for the full set.

Greetings! I’m sending this out through the Internet. You’d think this would be easy, right? As it turns out, it’s not.

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