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Today is effectively my second day in 'bdtpa' or beautiful down-town palo alto as the hotel wake up call reminds me each morning and when you look at the rest of 'the valley' you can see why the affluence of bdtpa makes it stand out - so much.
Travels across the bay up and down the silicon strip and seeing the various players has been an interesting way to study the make up of how different citiy designs create the culture of a nation. The low density housing found through out the bay area leads to a requirement for a lot of highways and a sprawling expanse of housing and a lot of gas guzzling cars.
The general quality of road is very low - probably because of the very heavy use it gets and you are given to thinking of the differences between road systems, how drivers behave (road rage), the symbolic nature of a car in peoples lives its all a bit scary.
So back to bdtpa its all been pretty full on lots of long hours - out for dinner tonight and I will try to put some pix up after that.
Posted by crispin at July 24, 2003 01:01 PM
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