Vasquez Rocks is a pretty cool way to spend an afternoon. Good pictures, cool area, not far out of LA, and then for the rest of your life you'll see it popping up in movies and TV shows way more than you had ever noticed before.

Okay, same again but for San Francisco, as apparently we will be spending a few days there. The stuff above is exactly the kinda thing I'm after.

Also there is talk of tours of ILM & mebbie Pixar via friends of my hosts -- I'm resisting as I can't imagine them being very much more than large offices with computers in. I mean, I work at one of the (non-ILM) London VFX houses already... I'm pretty familiar with the score! Am I wrong wrong wrong? Will I regret forever not looking round ILM when the opportunity presents itself? IIRC there's an optical printer in the lobby...

Cheers in advance! I land next Wednesday!

Hehe, cheers Eddie

I know nothing about SF but I believe I've heard of Hog Island from a friend, had nothing but good things to say; so secondary source backing up a primary?