TravelWork TravelPaloAlto On Wednesday, we began at this Redwood Shores building ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091536 where Avistar is headquartered. I had an animated discussion with Jerry Burnett ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091537 Alan Usas ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091538 who gave us his business card ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091543 and Marsha ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091539 about the delivery of video over networks. Before leaving I captured this picture of Jerry's beautiful object d'art ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091540 made of glass from Murano and these 2 paintings ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091541 ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091542 that adorned the lobby of the building.

The next stop was to have this lunch ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091544 with Matthew ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091545 from Nuance, a company specializing in speech understanding. After lunch, we drove back to Mountain View to park across the street from Handspring ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091546 at Pinnacle Systems ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091547 where we met Tim Heidmann ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091548 and took him ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091549 to lunch at this restaurant ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091550 with the marvelous display of hats.

After a short rest back at the hotels, we headed for Larkspur where we were greeted with a plate of bruschetta ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091551 as we met J. Michael Mahoney ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091552 for dinner at Fabrizio ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091553 where the menu ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091554 offered wonderful suggestions. We began with this bottle of ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091555 sparkling water. I began with the insalata mista ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091556 and as I was taking this picture of the salmon ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091557 that Mike had ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091558 this waiter came by ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091559 with my plate of gnocchi porcini ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091560 after which he took this picture ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091561 of the 3 of us. I finished my food photography with this glimpse of the fish ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091562 Marsha ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1091563 had. The dessert tray ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1101564 ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1101565 required 2 pictures before we could agree to share the white chocolate mousse ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1101566 with 3 spoons. The meal ended with complimentary port ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1101567 after which I went back for some hand washing signs for my collection. ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1101568 ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1101569 The restaurant wasn't done with us still bringing us some complimentary cookies ../../../Sabbat/01.06-09.02PaloAlto//P1101570 with which to finish our meal. In all, it was a good dinner!