San Francisco

When you turn around, you're like surrounded by water. Like Hong Kong, it's a peninsula, a city with an economy highly depended on tourism and (hence) people around the tourist sites are nice and friendly. There's one exception though: the (int'l) airport. It's around 911; there's fire in Eurotunnel. The check-in and the customs area were packed with people like an evacuation. But you can tell it's not immediately when you -- alien or not -- experience the uninviting 'help' from the airline staff.

There's two jokes about SF when I was there.
1. You can tell who is SF people and who's not real quick. SF people are all gay. (homosexual couple can get married)
2. SF people walk either leaning forward or backward (all the slopes)

I miss the pancake ...