Gone travelin': Work trip to Boston
Blogger reminds me that I haven't posted since March 31st. My goodness! Apologies to you, gentle reader, and thanks for sticking around.
I have excuses - don't we all? - and this time I can blog about one of them. I had a business trip for work from Wednesday to Friday, and I traveled to Boston. Following is a selection of scenes from a business trip.
I flew Southwest from Philadelphia to Manchester, NH - I think I mentioned in a previous post that Manchester is pretty convenient for my trips to the SAP office in Boston, since it's actually outside Boston in the northwest suburb of Burlington. Anyway, here we are coming to the gate in Manchester after a very lumpy flight thanks to those clouds overhead:
I finally got to take a picture of this sign at the Hertz pickup area in Manchester. It has been amusing me every time I've come through over the past year. The sign is a map of the pickup area, and the "Gold Room" is the Hertz office adjacent to the area. I think the use of "Gold Room" along with sparkly gold writing calls to mind some sleazy club in Atlantic City:
My rental car this time was a Ford Fusion V6. It's built on the Mazda6 chassis, and I used to own a Mazda6, so it was interesting to see the differences and the similarities. Overall it's a nice car and I wouldn't mind driving one again:
Here's my hotel room - I stayed in a Homewood Suites, which means a little kitchenette and living room in the suite. I bought a couple of groceries on the way in so I could eat breakfast in the room:
I spent a day and a half in the SAP Boston office, and then headed back home early Friday morning. We were forecast to have bad weather on the East Coast during the day Friday. Since we were having Nick's birthday party that evening, I decided to fly back earlier than planned on Friday morning so I wouldn't get delayed. That turned out to be a good call - my original mid-day flight ended up being delayed more than four hours. My early morning flight arrived exactly on time.
Gray skies once again in Manchester as we were leaving:
But once we came through the clouds we got to see the sun:
The weather as we neared Philadelphia was much rougher. Our approach and landing was very bumpy, and once on the ground I could see why - there was a nasty, wind-driven rain falling, and the clouds reached almost down to ground level. I had parked on the roof level of the garage, and I took this photo of a plane disappearing into the clouds only about 20 seconds after takeoff:
Arriving early meant catching the tail end of rush hour in Philadelphia, so I sat in a decent amount of traffic on the Blue Route coming home:
Isn't business travel glamorous?
I have excuses - don't we all? - and this time I can blog about one of them. I had a business trip for work from Wednesday to Friday, and I traveled to Boston. Following is a selection of scenes from a business trip.
I flew Southwest from Philadelphia to Manchester, NH - I think I mentioned in a previous post that Manchester is pretty convenient for my trips to the SAP office in Boston, since it's actually outside Boston in the northwest suburb of Burlington. Anyway, here we are coming to the gate in Manchester after a very lumpy flight thanks to those clouds overhead:
I finally got to take a picture of this sign at the Hertz pickup area in Manchester. It has been amusing me every time I've come through over the past year. The sign is a map of the pickup area, and the "Gold Room" is the Hertz office adjacent to the area. I think the use of "Gold Room" along with sparkly gold writing calls to mind some sleazy club in Atlantic City:
My rental car this time was a Ford Fusion V6. It's built on the Mazda6 chassis, and I used to own a Mazda6, so it was interesting to see the differences and the similarities. Overall it's a nice car and I wouldn't mind driving one again:
Here's my hotel room - I stayed in a Homewood Suites, which means a little kitchenette and living room in the suite. I bought a couple of groceries on the way in so I could eat breakfast in the room:
I spent a day and a half in the SAP Boston office, and then headed back home early Friday morning. We were forecast to have bad weather on the East Coast during the day Friday. Since we were having Nick's birthday party that evening, I decided to fly back earlier than planned on Friday morning so I wouldn't get delayed. That turned out to be a good call - my original mid-day flight ended up being delayed more than four hours. My early morning flight arrived exactly on time.
Gray skies once again in Manchester as we were leaving:
But once we came through the clouds we got to see the sun:
The weather as we neared Philadelphia was much rougher. Our approach and landing was very bumpy, and once on the ground I could see why - there was a nasty, wind-driven rain falling, and the clouds reached almost down to ground level. I had parked on the roof level of the garage, and I took this photo of a plane disappearing into the clouds only about 20 seconds after takeoff:
Arriving early meant catching the tail end of rush hour in Philadelphia, so I sat in a decent amount of traffic on the Blue Route coming home:
Isn't business travel glamorous?
