Omaha. Somewhere in the Middle of America: The Business Travel Thread

[BigPiney]

Well anyway, who would of thought that work would bring me to Barstow? SMR's a prophet.

We are almost neighbors at this point.

[Bo Diddley]

Burley, ID.
Tacoma, Wa.
Barstow, CA.
Waukegan, Ill.

Yeah, but at least I gave an explanation, unlike others, to explain the poor rating. Although Barstow probably needs no further explanation.

My uncle used to be the police chief in Barstow.

Are you bragging, or complaining? Anyway, it was SMR, not me, that first mentioned Barstow.

Just don't anyone speak ill of Barstow.

Well anyway, who would of thought that work would bring me to Barstow? SMR's a prophet. This post's for you, DH.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

CJ you'll have to explain to Grace where Woodinville is, seeing as it is more than 10 minutes from downtown he probably has never heard of it. That's a great cut off point to catch 522 and beat traffic heading North.

[cougjunkie]

I rarely travel for work anymore. Other than corporate trainings in Denver and the occasional out of state closing I attend.

My previous job I traveled quite a bit, always the same destinations.

Redding, Ca
Woodinville, Wa
Chino, Ca

Spent quite a bit of time in all 3 places, the most in Chino, followed by Woodinville. Woodinville would be fine if I had time to get to Seattle, but alone it sucks. Redding (no offense to a few CSers) but where I stayed was dumpy. It is also hot as hell in thesummer. Chino is famous for its prison.

[Pheidippides]

Lately I've been spending a lot of time in Canada, and Calgary specifically. I quite like it up there. I've also been to LA, Beijing and Tokyo at this my current job. Outside chance of another Asian trip this year.

[Moliere]

"Actually" kind of cool? Yeah, wouldn't think Singapore or London would be cool at all!

Ha, well I had no idea travel would be part of my job but I should have figured that since I have staff in both places. Managing a team in Singapore sucks though since I find myself having calls at all times of the day/night. It's by far the cleanest place I've ever visited....although there is very little in tourist attractions.

[MarkGrace]

Some weird places that I've done audits:

- Delta, UT (ate snow crab at a restaurant)
- somewhere near Price, UT (spent time in a coal mine that collapsed a couple years later)
- Billings, MT (fabulous sandwich shop downtown)
- West Palm Beach, FL (the hood, not the beach)
- Shreveport, LA

Lately my travel is limited to Singapore and London (both at least once a year), which is actually kind of cool.

"Actually" kind of cool? Yeah, wouldn't think Singapore or London would be cool at all!

[wuapinmon]

For the record, Omaha does have great places to eat.

I spent nearly two years commuting to Denver. That sucked, but the city itself didn't (apart from the aggressive panhandlers and the potheads camping out on storefronts at night).

I used to do inspections/survey in some remote areas. But the worst city was probably Beaumont, TX. Flew into Houston in the middle of the summer and proceeded to drive east and it got continuously hotter, dirtier, and uglier the farther east I went.

I haven't been there for work, but I can attest to Beaumont's name being a total lie.

[Moliere]

Some weird places that I've done audits:

- Delta, UT (ate snow crab at a restaurant)
- somewhere near Price, UT (spent time in a coal mine that collapsed a couple years later)
- Billings, MT (fabulous sandwich shop downtown)
- West Palm Beach, FL (the hood, not the beach)
- Shreveport, LA

Lately my travel is limited to Singapore and London (both at least once a year), which is actually kind of cool.

[Omaha 680]

For the record, Omaha does have great places to eat.

I spent nearly two years commuting to Denver. That sucked, but the city itself didn't (apart from the aggressive panhandlers and the potheads camping out on storefronts at night).

I used to do inspections/survey in some remote areas. But the worst city was probably Beaumont, TX. Flew into Houston in the middle of the summer and proceeded to drive east and it got continuously hotter, dirtier, and uglier the farther east I went.

[purplmonkeydishwashr]

Riverton, WY. Spent a week and a half there collecting groundwater samples at old gas station locations. Gross.

[Pelado]

Mesquite, NV.

I woke up this morning in Laughlin, NV. I should have included a picture of my sad looking breakfast. I was a solid representation of how I feel about this place.

Been to both of these doing gaming regulation work. Sucked.

[TripletDaddy]

You sound like EPU.

I love traveling, but I can limit my trips to cool places, which is a nice perk.

I have enjoyed my business trips to Philly and I highly doubt that anyone here can make a better steak than some of the steak places there. Surprised to see so much hate for the City of Brotherly Love.

[smokymountainrain]

I get really sick of the disrupted life. I don't even like eating out any more, so there isn't much I look forward to with business travel anymore.
Worst locations:
Roswell NM
Some little town outside of Toronto for a boring week
Boston without a GPS

I passionately hate traveling for business anymore. I traveled fairly often early in my career and never really enjoyed it, but I'm at a point where I hate it and have essentially stopped traveling for business at all. I hate staying in hotels alone, I don't like flying (the airports or the sky time) and like you I got tired of eating out constantly.

These days, I try to stay within Utah's borders, I drive everywhere I go and don't stay overnight in hotels if I can avoid it at all.

[Vic Vega]

They are finally upgrading the museum for the first time since the early 90's. Hopefully it will no longer resemble a highly informative 6th grade research project. My office was right behind the parking lot of the museum for four years and the tourists come rain or shine 364 days a year. More than 300 k every year, which makes it a joke that they had not done anything to make it a decent experience.

There is a lot of money pouring in there. It looked like most, if not the rest, of my fellow museum patrons were full on tourists who were there for the museum. I hope they don't improve the place too much.