[ChuckMcM]

Warm clothes. Seriously, when the fog comes in it gets damn cold.

A CalTrain pass can get you between 4th and Townsend (the southern end of town, in the 'south of mission' area) and Palo Alto. There are cars with support for bikes, so if you ride your bike you can hope the train to ride south.

If you are a serious bike rider you can check out the http://sf2g.com/ stuff (Originally Googlers who rode from SF to Google in Mtn View) which has lots of resources for bike commuting to the 'south bay' from San Francisco.

It is also possible to take BART to the Milbrae Station and then transfer to CalTrain south to Palo Alto. The two stops CalTrain makes are 'University' (which is right next to Stanford (and you can pick up the campus busses there) and Calfornia.

AT&T is an ok provider as is Verizon. AT&T coverage in Cupertino around Apple HQ is excellent btw :-)

[jlt]

Thanks Chuck, it seems transport is pretty decent in SF then - that's good news!

I really do appreciate your input, thanks again :)

jlt