May 2019
Party planning in a foreign country for an event with uncertain numbers is always a nerve-wracking business. A couple of hours before the San Francisco Salon, my co-host…
After interviewing a largely optimistic Russell I took a walk around the Berkeley campus, feeling a little adrift (and retrospectively sorry not to have called Laura). Russell recognises…
I continued on to the Science Centre and had my normal ambivalent reaction. It’s a striking building with, as promised, spectacular views over the city. The building itself…
My interview with Stuart Russell had been arranged in the radio studio on the Berkeley campus with the Guardian listening in from London. Apparently the best views are…
More often than not when I’m in San Francisco I make the mistake of having a car with me. Someone once estimated that at any given moment of…
I had to get to San Francisco that evening and it was after 2 by the time I left Hearst Castle. I couldn’t resist taking a final recommendation…
Heading north from Santa Barbara I substituted ‘go somewhere really cheap’ for ‘don’t decide where you’re staying’. I have no idea who wins when you find a place…
Before heading up into the mountains I spent the morning walking around Santa Barbara’s Spanish era buildings on the Red Tile walking tour. As I went I played…
Another advantage of a very lightly timetabled journey is that you can respond immediately to random suggestions. One of the LA Salon participants, on hearing that I was…