Do you know what terminal you'll be in when you land, or where you'll need to be for your flight to Seattle? We can probably pick a restaurant convenient for one or both of those. I don't know the airport well enough to suggest a meeting place, but I can find restaurants on their website.

I'll be running a 5K in Napa at 9am that morning, so I'm not sure exactly when I can get to SFO, maybe 11ish? Or later if I come home and shower...

I'll confirm it with my travel agent tomorrow (it's the weekend here), but looks like it's terminal 3 for both flights. Looking at their site: [link] post-security means you have to come in and go through it, right? Should I be looking for places outside the terminal? (you can tell I'm not a frequent flyer, can't you).

Good luck with the run! I think you have the time to come back home and take that shower. Even if you'll be an hour later we will still have some time. My flight to Seattle leaves at 13:17.

Right "Post-security" means I would have to go through security to get there, which I don't think I can even do if I want to without a plane ticket. Looks like Pre-security options for Terminal 3 are Peet's, Starbucks, and Subway. At least you can definitely get coffee...it looks like there are more choices at the International Terminal Main Hall food courts. Anything labelled "Pre-Security" is okay with me.

I will plan on showering then! So I can probably meet you noonish, which gives us an hour or so of hanging out. Yay!

Great! I'll check with my agent tomorrow and then we'll decide.

If Shir's plane to Seattle leaves right after 1, it is likely boarding around 12:35, 12:45 latest. And she will need to back through security and get back to her gate before that.

Ah, right. Good point.

Shir, SFO has free wifi. There are tech shops inside the terminal where you might be able to get a SIM card but I imagine they would be wildly overpriced.

The International Terminal is definitely better for food options at SFO. It is a short walk (or even shorter air train ride) from Terminal 3, which is next door. SFO is not that big so it's easy to get around.

However, it will be important to keep track of time as Terminal 3 means United and that usually means long security lines. My instinct is that time of day should be okay but one never knows with them.

The free wifi was the first thing I checked. I hope I'll be able to bring my laptop with me to the flight, but I won't know for sure until Thursday (pack day). Anyhow, with the lack of sleep I'm expecting I don't plan to make any decisions about SIM cards during the 30+ hours of travel; they can wait.

Long security lines = longer than 20-30 minutes wait for the check? I have no idea how long they normally take.

I'll get there earlier if I can, of course. I don't think I've actually driven to SFO from here before, I don't really know how long it takes so I'm adding some cushion to my estimate (I do know that Amtrak->BART takes longer so I'm not going to try to do that, and short-term parking prices actually look pretty reasonable). If anyone along the way would like me to pick them up, that's absolutely doable, btw.

Also, since you're flying on an Israeli passport, allow an extra few minutes for security. You'll probably get at least a cursory "Is everything OK with this person? Yeah, seems fine" extra check, but probably not anything more than that.