Berkeley Heights
This is a pretty mediocre shot of the parking lot where we parked to look at the view from the Berkeley area. The view itself was splendid. You can see SF, Oakland, the whole bay area, Marin county etc.
Berkeley was a great contrast to Stanford. While Stanford is new, spacious and modern, Berkeley is old, stylish and cramped. Berkeley also has a hippy athmosphere to it - a huge contrast to posh Palo Alto across the bay. Our tour was brief and mostly consisted of driving around and seeing the buildings on campus.
Our next stop was Oakland where we saw the train (this was close to the loofs and condos), some newly developed loof neighborhoods close to the Bay and some leafy neighborhoods while leaving the city...as well as a standard US-type downtown.
We then drove south and across the San Mateo 'bridge' - actually more like a flat road in the see (Bay). We were excited about seeing Stanford, Palo Alto, San Jose and Silicon Valley, but mostly it was simply a suburban yawn.
talk more here....road and rest area...walking street...could not find business school....companies in Silicon valley...san jose development and shopping center type thing...view from Berkeley and jogging.....traffic towards the bay bridge...
Berkeley Heights
This is a pretty mediocre shot of the parking lot where we parked to look at the view from the Berkeley area. The view itself was splendid. You can see SF, Oakland, the whole bay area, Marin county etc.
Berkeley was a great contrast to Stanford. While Stanford is new, spacious and modern, Berkeley is old, stylish and cramped. Berkeley also has a hippy athmosphere to it - a huge contrast to posh Palo Alto across the bay. Our tour was brief and mostly consisted of driving around and seeing the buildings on campus.
Our next stop was Oakland where we saw the train (this was close to the loofs and condos), some newly developed loof neighborhoods close to the Bay and some leafy neighborhoods while leaving the city...as well as a standard US-type downtown.
We then drove south and across the San Mateo 'bridge' - actually more like a flat road in the see (Bay). We were excited about seeing Stanford, Palo Alto, San Jose and Silicon Valley, but mostly it was simply a suburban yawn.
talk more here....road and rest area...walking street...could not find business school....companies in Silicon valley...san jose development and shopping center type thing...view from Berkeley and jogging.....traffic towards the bay bridge...