Hi, I flew from Reid Hillview in San Jose a few times a few years ago. Seemed a good GA airfield; with good quality planes to rent. I flew with Tradewinds Aviation - seemed very professional; and all rental planes in excellent condition.
Not surprisingly the folks there were well used to fitting in with the SFO and San Jose traffic for bay area flying [for practice in a busy area], but also easy to fly over the mountains and south to places like Watsonville where you could do touch and gos in a quiet place. Great views in the bay and down the coast.
I would recommend a G1000 plane with TCAS in that area as fairly busy airspace and as all the planes will have transponders the traffic awareness it gives is really useful.