My VA Business Trip

It may be for Lovers but it’s not for summer traveling.

(Click on the pic to see more of my VA trip)

I’m back…in more ways than one. I am back here writing after a 3 week layoff, but I am also back home in Utah. Unfortunately, I had the unpleasant assignment of working in Virgina for two weeks. While I did get to come home for the weekend, I was still away from my family a wee bit too much.

VA is very beautiful, but it counters that with unbearable weather. It was over 100 degrees most of the time with 66% humidity. I couldn’t stand it. Not even Ecuador was as bad as that… at least I don’t remember it being so. It was so hot, I had a hard time even breathing in that air. Needless to say, I spent most of my time indoors.

It’s not like I could do any site-seeing anyways since I routinely worked past 6 PM.

One of the fringe benefits of corporate traveling is being able to eat out, and VA is famous for its Southern BBQ. Oh man, was I in heaven. I ate BBQ at least 6 times. It was absolutely scrumptious. I even got to eat Hush Puppies for the first time. Woooo Doggy!

I also stayed at a nice hotel that had one of Don Shula’s restaurants in the lobby. Best steak I have eaten in my life. The Ribeye was the best ever. I am not exxagerating. They raise their own beef and have high standards of cuts. It shows too. I pigged out.

One temptation was that I was only 100 miles from Washington D.C. As you may know, my brother-n-law Jeff is serving his mission there. I almost went to see him, but his mission requests that we don’t. I guess his mission is such a big tourist area that many missionaries have opportunities for visits, and it would have proven too distracting. Oh well, we’ll have to settle for picking him up.

So here I am, back in the saddle again. I was just able to read my wife’s blogs of when I was gone. I have to say that I feel real special right now. I didn’t think I needed to hear things like that to make me feel better but gosh, do I feel like a million bucks. I gotta go and give my wife lots of hugs and kisses. Good thing I bought her a "VA is for Lovers" T-Shirt. She is the best and has proven once again that she is my better half.

~Adam