[BALUG-Talk] access Bay Area LUG from the Bay Area

[Bill Kendrick]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 11:02:12PM -0700, John Magolske wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * Cheng Renquan <crquan at gmail.com> [111025 20:17]:
> > I'm living/working in the bay area (Milpitas), from another country am
> > new to here silicon valley and new to US; am still learning driving;
> > [...]
> > The only problem may be too far to visit in a Tuesday evening; over
> > one hour driving there one hour driving back and not sure how is
> > parking there? Or anyone going there from the south bay area? to
> > carpool may be a good option;
> 
> I don't live in the South Bay, but one option you might want to
> consider is a (much shorter) drive to the Fremont BART station,
> then a BART train into SF. Get off at Powell Street Station, and
> from there it's about a 10 minute walk up Grant Street through
> Chinatown to the Four Seas restaurant.

There's also Caltrain, which would get you from as far as San Jose up
to San Francsico.  But then you'd need to bus (or BART?) to get
closer to Chinatown.  I admittedly don't know SF too well, and don't
live on the peninsula any more.

-bill!
(hi from Davis!)