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Barry Shein (bzs@world.std.com) wrote:
: 
: 1. Berkeley is in Berkeley, CA. That is about 50 miles (80km) from San
: Jose. There is a train system (CalTrain) but you might want to arrange
: to have an automobile, particularly if you might be travelling odd
: hours. San Francisco is roughly the same distance from San Jose
: (probably 40 mi / 65 km). San Jose is south of SF and Berkeley, in the
: Silicon Valley area. The obvious road between them is Rte 101 (get a
: map), to get to Berkeley follow the signs as you get to SF to the
: Oakland Bay-Bridge, cross the bridge and follow the main road to
: Berkeley, get off at University Ave I guess, the Berkeley Campus exit
: is marked on the highway (pardon me, easterner here, FREEWAY not
: highway.)
: 
You need to be pretty brave to go from San Jose to Berkeley by
public transportation.  You can ride CalTrain to San Francisco,
but then you have to walk or take a bus several long blocks to
a BART station.  CalTrain is pretty slow, too. (~1.5 hours from
SJ to SF).

The directions given above for driving are good.  The "main road
to Berkeley" is Interstate 80.

Stanford is about 10-15 miles NW of San Jose.  Take highway 101
N (toward San Francisco) to the Embarcadero Road off-ramp in
Palo Alto.  Proceed west for about 2 miles and you'll come to 
the stadium at the corner of El Camino Real.