2-07-08 5:45am fly to Orlando Florida with Mrs. Luke, the lovely Allison and Little Luke V2.0 to visit the happiest place on earth (which in my opinion has to be a lie since most of the magic kingdom is dry)

2-11-08 8:40pm return to South Bend from Orlando

2-12-08 6:30am drive from South Bend to Chicago's Midway Airport to fly to Phoenix to attend the 3-day Bondurant Racing school

2-15-08 skip the prepaid flight home

2-16-08 6:20am fly to Dallas Texas (landing at 9:30am)
2-16-08 10:00am get rental car and drive to Shreveport Louisiana (3 hours 17 minutes per mapquest)

2-16-08 1:30pm arrive in Shreveport to pick up new 996.

2-16-08 2:30pm depart Shreveport and start 933 mile drive to South Bend (14 hours 24 minutes per mapquest)

2-17-08 arrive home eventually

Last week in Orlando, FL
This week in Stuttgart, Germany
Next week in Oakland, CA
The week after that all over the state of Kentucky
Then off to Dallas
Followed by Mexico City
etc.
etc.
etc.

maybe because i'm getting older, who knows. I don't mind a trip here and there for work, but the back-to-back-to-back weeks out of town really wear me out - especially since a decent chunk of my time out of town is spent entertaining clients.

I'm the lead pre-sales engineer for a German-based software company.

we had plenty of pure, unadulterated fun last night.

9 hours
25 bars
400 euros

thankfully found a gyro stand before turning in for the night, otherwise i'd feel like complete ass today.

Often times, he tells me, he'll wake up in a hotel room not knowing at all where the hell he is.

Travel around the world is awesome, but if you can do it for fun and pleasure.

especially the rat trap in orlando

It gets old real fast, so I'm happy not to be doing it much anymore.

Safe travels for you and yours.