Thanksgiving Travelog #17
Washington, DC. Saturday, 26 Nov 2016. 3pm.

Today we met my sister, C., and her family at the National Air & Space Museum in downtown Washington, DC. See Air & Space website and Wikipedia's NASM pageI still remember the fascination that the Air & Space Museum held for me when I was a kid. The epic moon landing (1969) ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving Travelog #13
Washington, DC. Saturday, 26 Nov 2016. 2am.

As I mentioned in my previous entry, our next visit on our impromptu late-night walking tour was the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. The FDR is a low-key monument, alongside the Tidal Basin opposite the Jefferson memorial (see map in previous entry). It's one of the newer ( Read more... )

I'm in Phoenix this week for sales training at my new job. Okay, technically I'm in neighboring Scottsdale, Arizona, not Phoenix. But it's the same 109 degrees (43 C) here. That's simply a normal temperature for the Valley of the Sun in the summer ( Read more... )

Here's a snapshot of a day in the life of a traveling salesman. This particular day in my life was Tuesday, June 5:

0730 EDT, Jersey City. Waking up in my hotel room. This counts as "sleeping in" because I got 7 hours of sleep, almost double what I got the night before. Damn jet lag.

0810: Downstairs for breakfast. Colleague not here to meet me. ( Read more... )