Hello,

So last year I was given the opportunity to visit Oracle University located in Belmont California while in pursuit of my next endeavor, becoming an Oracle certified personal. As my employer has allowed me to extend my education further, I have up to now taken many classes at Oracle University.

In the picture above you can see the famous Oracle sail boat behind the water falls. The campus is huge and is designed to draw in the younger developers, each building has many offices and stores along with different dining options depending upon which building you visit. It has a feel of being on a resort kind of.

So after class was over, I choose to drive to the Golden Gate bridge as I have never seen or been in San Francisco before. The drive would take me another hour towards the west. I felt the driving was like that in New York as the streets are very narrow and the traffic moves very quickly. Speed limit they are only suggestions here, and my truck a full size Tundra was well a tight fit, but love the fact that a Prius will remove themselves from my merging lane every time.

Upon my arrival at the Golden Gate bridge I quickly realized that I would not be blessed with a view, it turns out the day I was there at about three thirty in the afternoon the marine layer was moving in. When this happens visibility is reduced to about seventy five feet.

Once across the bridge I pulled over to stop and take a look, from the picture above you can see how much of a view I truly had. The feeling of being there is very lovely, you could hear a fog horn, and a few ships in passing which would drift into view then slowly and quietly disappear. So what else was there to do take a ‘Selfie’ but of course.

I once again quickly texted this picture to my love April. I also took a video but WordPress requires one to upgrade to a premium account. Something I am unwilling to do at this point.

I decided I would return to Belmont but before I did I could not resist driving up and down the streets I have seen many times on television. So I made my way to the harbor Fisherman’s Warf it turns out once I arrived my truck really did not fit the streets of SF and the Warf is well a tourist destination, something I wanted nothing to do with.

So I proceeded to look down the streets until I found a street which the angle of the road was well straight up. I even thought about going down the famous Lombard Street, but upon navigating to it learned the road was closed with multiple signs stating oversize vehicles were not allowed. Come on people this is discrimination against large truck owners everywhere.

So I then found Filbert Street, this street is no joke and people actually live, park and walk there. When driving up nothing could be seen out the windshield I had to look out the drivers side window to get a view as trying to pull myself up over the steering wheel did not help. I wanted a picture but any removal of my hands from the steering wheel or brakes would have resulted in cretin death for this non-city slicker.

Going down was better but you quickly realize if the brakes stopped working it too would result in cretin death. Well the rest of the trip was just driving and learning, I am glad I was able to see the sites and experience the big city but was ready to return home at the end of the day.

Until next time… aCSguy