• On the Road

    On the Road: Vegas

    I’m sure I’m gonna’ catch a lot of crap for this, but I can’t stand Vegas.  There are simply too many people there to get lost in a debaucherous trip.  Luckily most businesses there operate off the strip, but most conferences do not.  So in the middle of trying to get things done you have to deal with drunk people crashing into your door trying to get to their room.  The whole city is built around the idea of a devil’s playground, which just doesn’t jive with me.  This isn’t to say I don’t like the people that live there.  To be honest, I really do.  But it’s the city itself…

  • On the Road

    On the Road: New Jersey

    Jersey is weird.  There are a lot of different communities that are close to one another but all very different.  There are parts that are basically an extension of Philadelphia and others that are basically an extension of New York.  Then there is Atlantic City and the Shore.  And if you’re there and you don’t go see Lucy the Elephant then you just don’t miss what you’re missing.  But don’t forget, if you end up there, make sure to clean up your aunt’s floor…

  • On the Road

    On the Road: Travels with Charlie

    I travel a bit for work, and so a part of this blog is going to be dedicated to those travels.  To start this off, I thought I’d cover a little of how I like to travel rather than little notes about where.  So when I fly I like to be unencumbered with my bags.  So I almost always check my bags.  Then when I see people running up and down the isles trying to get their gargantuan bags crammed into little cubby holes I can laugh at them…  Of course, this means I have to wait for my bag to come out on the carousel but that’s a small price to pay for…