Visiting Contra Costa County in California is not unpleasant, especially when you work for Ars. There's a critical mass of Ars staffers in the Bay area, so I was not entirely without social contact outside my assigned tasks in San Ramon. Let's just say that David Kravets throws a hell of a pizza party and leave it at that.
There's also the scenery. After the first day of shooting, we took a trip to get some "b-roll" footage of the Bay Bridge and soon found ourselves on Yerba Buena Island looking for someplace to park. There may have been some questionable navigation involved, but I believe we were never technically trespassing on federal land. The California Highway Patrol car that stopped nearby was just there because the trooper was taking a smoke break and snapping pictures of San Francisco with his smartphone.
In many ways, the Bay area is a sort of home away from home for me—I worked for a company in Palo Alto for a few years and spent a quarter of my time there. I have family in San Francisco and Santa Cruz. My wife and I honeymooned in San Francisco and used to spend a good chunk of our summers there (thanks largely to JavaOne).
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