re: San Francisco Trip

If you want to take a tour of the Anchor Brewery, make your reservation now. I tried several times to schedule a tour and they were booked up months in advance. (Happy ending: I met one of their brewers at a private party while telling my sob story about not getting in -- I even showed up one day and said "I'm small, I'll stand in the back and won't ask any questions" and they still turned me away -- and he wound up giving a friend and I a private tour.)