Travel

Summer Tour 2021

Before the pandemic I had planned and scheduled a summer tour to hit the last remaining State (Louisianna) on my list of continental states to…


Teaching in San Francisco

This isn’t my first time in California, but the first time outside the airport. I got to spend the first week of December 2019 in…


The Places You Will Go

It is time for the 99th edition of T-SQL Tuesday, which is a SQL blog party started by Adam Machanic (b|t). This month’s topic was a Dealer’s…


Three Year Across America

Yes, it is the over-rated travel slideshow. But over the last three years I’ve been speaking at many SQL Saturday events, attending Microsoft Conferences, or…


Road Trip

On my way to the PASS Summit, I thought I would take a short road trip through Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Such beautiful…


Fall Tour 2017

Finished scheduling travel plans for the next two months and am very excited. I will check Wyoming and South Dakota off my bucket list, as…


Northwest Train Trip

 Well I did it. 58 hours on a train from Indianapolis to Seattle. So I can scratch that off the bucket list. It is amazing…


Train Trip to Seattle

So I was planing my trip to the MCT Summit which is in Bellevue, Washington from March 28 -30, 2017. I was originally going to…


Arizona 2016

Had the chance to teach two weeks of SQL Server in Phoenix, Arizona with a weekend off in between the two weeks. I took the…