Hi Ed,
the subject line of your message indicates you live in California
in which case Santa Clara won't add much to the experience,
but most other people could enjoy visiting California a lot
especially if they don't mind dedicating entire day driving to Sierra
Nevada.
One off the beaten path route is to cross the Sierra on hwy 108,
pass by Lake Mono
and return on hwy 120 through Yosemite.
Even around Santa Clara there are some possibilities for a good drive,
try to get to the observatory in San Jose (hwy 103 or 104),
or just cross the Coastal range around Santa Clara and take hwy 1 North
to San Francisco.
Other than the natural beauty the place is pretty sterile
but from my experience it applies to most of the country anyway.
The clubs in downtown San Jose are decent especially if you manage
to find one with live music.
I'd consider visiting one of mysql conferences if they had one
in a nice place like Panama City (in Panama, not in Florida).
Thanks,
Michael
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Subject: Re: General MySQL Question: Ed Reed (CA, United States of
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I just didn't enjoy the location. When it was in Orlando a few years
ago, it was
great. There were plenty of things to do and see; different places to
eat every
night. I had a really good time. Then the following year I went to
Santa Clara
and there was nothing to do. I went to the movies one night. Had dinner
at
Sizzler three times. I drove 45 minutes to find a place I could buy a
shirt. The
rest of the time I stayed in the hotel and watched crappy tv. If you
folks want
me to be away from my family and friends for five days you've gotta
give me a
reason to wanna go besides the great technical information. I didn't go
to last
years, I'm not going to this years and I probably won't go to any
future ones
held in Santa Clara. When I came home from the last one, my kids asked
what I
got them from my trip and I had nothing for them. It was just a boring
place to
go and I don't wanna go back. I'd just like to see it held someplace
new every
year.
Thanks for replying to my comment
Lenz Grimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1/25/07 2:21 AM >>>
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Hi Ed,
thank you for your message!
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Ed Reed has filled out the MySQL Contact Form with
a
General MySQL Question:
Can someone tell me you folks are going to hold all future User
Conferences
in Santa Clara? I would like to go this year but I didn't enjoy
myself at the
last one I went to in Santa Clara in '05 and I don't wanna go back.
If you
folks plan to hold all future conferences there I'd like to know so I
can
resign myself to the fact that it's never gonna change instead of
hoping that
it's gonna be somewhere else every year.
To be honest, it's not entirely clear yet if we will change the
location for
upcoming events. But could you explain why you didn't enjoy yourself at
the
last one? How can we improve?
Bye,
LenZ
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Community Relations Manager, EMEA
MySQL GmbH, http://www.mysql.de/, Hamburg, Germany
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