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| Here's a little (...everything is big in the USA...) textual description about my recent work/holiday trip to the Southwest United States in March 2004. Obviously writing this to a basically public web is quite a severe ego trip, but there are a number of people that would be interested in the pictures at the very least. So I think it is easier for me just to type up my memories and road stories here instead of a private photo album and a few emails -- especially in this era of the digital camera when we don't even have the physical photos anymore without an explicit order. The plan was to fly Monday morning to Copenhagen, have a work meeting there and take off in the afternoon towards Chicago and from there to the first destination, Dallas, suitably still in the evening of Monday, at that time zone. Tuesday would be spent in business meetings in Dallas, and in the evening I would be taking a flight towards Houston. Work would continue there through Friday, after which I would be off the hook of my company obligations, with the exception of some email monitoring. Saturday evening I would then fly to Phoenix to meet a musical web acquaintance, Bill. Sunday was reserved for a visit to Grand Canyon, and Monday for jamming with local cats in Phoenix. Tuesday morning would be basically free, and in the evening I would be flying with Bill to Las Vegas -- Bill to a business conference and me just to see the city. Wednesday and Thursday were totally free of any pre-made plans -- just see the city -- and early Friday morning there would be a plane eagerly waiting in the airport to take me back home to Turku via Washington, D.C. and Copenhagen to sleep off my travel exhaustion and internal clock misalignment. That was the plan. The following pages will put meat on the skeleton and explain what really happened, down to detail, probably even painfully so in part. Well, there is no obligation to read -- no questionnaire in the end, nor a big prize for the toughest survivor in the jungle of unsolicited and unedited web writings. But such is the world of free speech. :) A few notes about the pictures: some have been taken with a camera phone, the rest with two different digital cameras (Bill's and mine). Most taken by me, some by Teemu and Bill. Some pictures, the ones with a border, are links to a larger version that open in a separate window. The same window is used for all pictures but for the time being, once open it does not get sent to foreground automatically when displaying a new picture. Also, since there is about a zillion pictures, I've put just the essential ones on the main storyline pages and made extra pages to hold the additional material.
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Last modified: 2004-06-12
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