Made it to San Francisco!
Well, I've not found any rice yet, but here I am. What a shitty flight. Got stuck in Philly in a line of 24 airplanes. Luckily, after about 40 minutes they let us go "early" because of the long 5.5 hour flight to San Fran.
Now I've got a day to spend here before doing it all over again! Yay!
I think I saw the bay bridge on the way over here. That's about my site seeing for the moment.