I’ve been alerted that I will be traveling soon. My boss wishes me to fly to Singapore and Chennai India to build out our sales and sales engineering networks and do visits with our offices there. I’ve never been to either place. This brings to mind a possibility of flying completely around the world which I simply cannot ignore since we also have offices in the UK so perhaps I should visit there too. I’m getting prepared for a month’s trip since I will probably be in India for at least a week and maybe longer. My Singapore time will be about a week to go over some product roadmaps, meet with engineering there, and just see how we do things there. I’m pretty thrilled about the whole thing.
Traveling internationally is interesting especially with these destinations. I will cover some number of miles and I’ve kinda considered what i want to do as far as flight times and locales and sidetrips even. I am going to stop over in Tokyo for a day perhaps to get acclimated and less-lagged and then fly on to Singapore. After Singapore, I’ve toyed with the idea of getting a visa for a visit to mainland China and take a few days there. I have an interest in seeing a few places like the Great Wall, some archeological materials here and there, and just the overall city locales around Beijing.
Next I will fly on to India and do my few weeks work there. After this is over, I intend on visiting Egypt. Since I am a has-been archeologist, you know I have an interest in world antiquity and the pyramids, the valley of kings, and Luxor all hold an interest. This gets me to a point where its probably easier to just fly on to New York and then back rather than go back the other way.
I’m going to build a few interesting images and upload them to the blog tomorrow to represent what I think i am going to do. To me, its a chance in a lifetime to see the world and have it paid for by work so I intend on doing what I can to maximize and see things.
Come back tomorrow or the next day and I’ll show some images of my travel plans. It should be fun to build out those images since I rarely post images here.
