I'm currently sitting in Denver International awaiting a flight to Houston
where I'll meet up with Taggart for the flight into Mexico. There we'll
meet up with some other folks (Ryan Murray, Troy Heber & Junichi Uekawa
at least) and take a cab down to Oaxtepec. We've had *tremendous* trouble
booking our hotel room (and by we, I mean Troy). In fact, last we heard they
were cancelling our reservation. I strongly suspect this is an attempt
at bribe soliciation, or maybe they actually just don't want to do business
with us? Not quite sure - my employer is sponsoring my travel here, and I
haven't noticed a "bribe" category on the expense report.. maybe I can list
it under tip? :) Oh well, I suspect the worst case is that we can find
asylum for a night on someone's floor until our accomodations get worked out.
I'm very much looking forward to arriving at DebConf & seeing everyone, not
to mention trying the local cuisine :)
posted at: 13:23 | path: /trips | permanent link to this entry
I travelled quite a bit over the break. First leg was home to New Mexico
for Christmas. The night I arrived, YD's band Absolute Uncertainties played
a short birthday party set.
The rest of the week was spent mostly hanging out with my nieces &
nephews. They're pretty fun to hang out with, now that most of them can
carry on conversations.
Then it was off to Las Vegas.
But I didn't stop at that one & instead ventured on to the one in Nevada.
I drove to Albuquerque, had lunch with Skye & Casey, then met up with YD to
fly to Vegas. After nearly missing the flight to fix a flat on the rental,
we were on our way. This was YD's first time on an airplane, and he didn't
even throw up on me. That's a true friend.
A bunch of us stayed at a friend's house.
We spent a lot of time in the hot tub, drank a lot of Coors Light, and ate a
lot of Del Taco.
posted at: 14:01 | path: /trips | permanent link to this entry
