So there hasn't been a lot posted here lately. I attribute that to two things. 1. I was about to buy a digital camera because I like the concept of posting a picture with each of my blogs and that was keeping me from writing some entries. Well I finally accomplished that during one of my recent trips. This leads into the second reason, I've been traveling. Almost non-stop. For about 3 weeks I lived out of my suitcase from one city to another, only every being in my apartment in Houston for a night, enough time to do laundry and repack my bag.

It started with a trip to Bakersfield. I got to visit a well site and it was impressive to see how much work and planning goes into pulling that oil out of the ground.

From there I was able to spend some time back in the bay area before heading out the New Orleans for a training class. New Orleans. I spent a couple nights walking around the French Quarter and its a lot of the same thing. Bar, bar, T shirt shop, strip club, strip club, bar, bar and another bar. You pretty much repeat this pattern and toss in some resturants and there you have it. Its actually the one place I've found that's more humid than Houston as well. There was some interesting sites, but since I wasn't there for a party there was ony so much to do. 

From New Orleans my next destination was on to Minneapolis, Minnesota. This was originally planned as a weekend trip to visit my home boy Eddie. It turns out there was a technical class being help there the week after so I got to spend a week and a half there. It was Eddie's 30th birthday so it was a good week to be there, more on this later...