Pardon the silence while I travel the world:
Last week, I was in Concord, near Boston. But DS SolidWorks decided they needed to embargo some of what we media heard until next week. So, not so much to write about.
Home for three days.
Today, my wife, Heather, and I are off on an obligatory trip. Her aunt wished that her ashes be brought to her town of birth in Eastern Canada, to the grave next to her mother's. We'll fly with my in-laws, have a grave-side ceremony, and then spend a few days in the area.
Home for three days.
Professor Torsten Calvi Corp. in Manila Philippines asked me to provide two weeks of consulting on their office CAD practices. Three days after returning from Eastern Canada, I fly to Manila via Tokyo. The architectural facade design firm has given me permission to blog about the time in Philippines, and I look forward to doing this.
In early October, Bricsys is holding their annual developer conference, and invited me to attend, as well as to speak on the subject of the future of software and hardware. This year the conference is in Brussels, and I fly there from Manila via Beijing and Copenhagen. I hope to blog the event live.
Following this, I'll fly back home via London. I've always wanted to fly around the world, and thanks to the generosity of Professor Torsten Calvi Corp and Bricsys, the dream comes true later this month.
Some stats: The trip is 18,000 miles long, requires 52 travel hours (including airport stopovers), five airlines (Air Canada, ANA, China Air, Scandinavian Air, and Brussels Airlines -- four of which I've never flown with before), and seven cities, four of which I've never before seen -- if you can call an aiport stopover "seeing a city"!
For me, stopovers between legs of flights don't count unless you leave the airport and the care of the airline. That means unplanned overnight layovers also don't count, by my tally. I got to be able to get clear of the airport/airlines freely into the city for it to count.
Posted by: fcsuper | Sep 05, 2011 at 05:02 AM