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3 days and 37km of walking in San Francisco

As I write I am sitting in the San Francisco airport, waiting to leave after a very busy but most fabulous 3 days of fun with my 15 year old daughter, Megan. Getting there We left Brisbane on Wednesday at 11am.   In the Singapore Airlines lounge (Virgin Airlines partner) we met a girl who works for Uber in San Francisco and she offered to send us a guide she had written for new employees about the city.  She also warned us against going to an area called "Tenderloin".  She works in tech recruiting for Uber and told us they 4000 engineers in SF alone.  This turned out to be a fortuitous meeting. I decided to test out the Economy X offering from Virgin to see if if really did make a difference.  It is hard to compare accurately as we were in the front row of Economy X, meaning that we had no-one in front of us.  The seats were a bit hard for my tastes and I spent most of the flight wishing I could lay back just a little bit further! I suspect we both managed about 2 ho