Everyone wants to go to Alcatraz

It isn%26#39;t just common everyday peasants like you and me who want to see Alcatraz.

The U.S. State Department sent foreign diplomats to California on a ';vacation'; away from Washington, so they can see a different side of America. A group of them toured Alcatraz. It may have been a little too real for some ambassadors who had done time for being politcal dissenters in their countries. But it sounds like on the whole, they had a good time.

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We hope you have a good time too!

Everyone wants to go to Alcatraz

';The visiting ambassadors, part of a larger group, got to choose whether to visit Alcatraz, Muir Woods or Crissy Field.';

Now I wonder why they didn%26#39;t offer a package tour? ;-)

Everyone wants to go to Alcatraz

What, they didn%26#39;t have an option for the Haight? LOL

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I think dinner at North Beach followed by Beach Blanket Babylon and then on to the Castro would have been better for them.

I hope they do not have the same idea if Nelson Mandela ever visits the US again ;)

* ';Now I wonder why they didn%26#39;t offer a package tour? ;-)'; *

That thought crossed my mind too. As long as they brought them all this way, why not show them everything? Some Washington bureaucrat must have designed the tours.

* ';Now I wonder why they didn%26#39;t offer a package tour? ;-)'; *

Probably based on short attention spans... living inside the Beltway can do that to you, I%26#39;m sure.

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