It's good to be back home.  Silicon Valley and San Francisco are cool places to visit, though.  Everywhere you look is another tech company.  In fact, Ariba is right next door to Ventro and Sun.  SGI is down the street.  As well as Lycos and Verisign and...well, the list goes on forever.  But all tech aside, if there was one thing I could bring back, it would be a few of the trees!  They're georgeous and they're everywhere.  Got to spend a little bit of time (read one night) in San Francisco.  Stayed in the 39 story Marriot downtown.  Meg and I will be living over there for a couple of months soon.  It'll be cool to see more of the area.