Spain at its Best!

So now is my next entry since the wireless internet in Spain was playing tricks on me and would not work well. I was able to arrive back to Hong Kong tonight after flying from Zurich Switzerland and its good to be home. After a five week rally around the world, its good to relax and see friends and people who have probably thought I passed away or something! haha It was a great experience and through this work, I truly realize how many of the people we work with and do business with, become over time, good friends and people who we can rely on and help out. One great part of this work is that I am able to meet people all over the world and then they become friends who I can meet up with over time! I am very tired from my long travels and now I am going to head to bed so I can get my baggage fixed that was destroyed today by the airlines! grrrr! Customer service is certainly not what it used to be and people truly do not care it seems sometimes...........other than this bad seed, the trip was phenominal.

Vegas to LA to Narita to HK to Dubai to Saudi to Spain

I have been on a four week around the world trip going from las vegas at the SEMA show to los angeles. From these two locations, I went off for a long trip to narita japan, hong kong, dubai, saudi arabia, zurich switzerland, and then to barcelona spain. It was amazing to see the different places and how each contrasts and is different while also being the same in many respects. I am now in spain after coming from the middle east and all is well with working with our different distributors. Each has been so nice to show me around and I must say that I have really enjoyed the food and sights with great people. This entry simply talks about this and also about how much I miss a great sandwich and meat! I thought it was very interesting how each culture has opposites. In america, we work hard and leave work around 6 or so, then we are done. In Asia, people move faster than other parts of world, but they do not work efficient and then stay until late and they love to start truly working around afternoon, when it is too late for western people. In places like the middle east they love to work at night times from 7 to 2am or so since it is so hot! I could not believe the sights and things to see and do in Dubai even though it was like 90 F outside and it was cool for them. In summer it reaches about 120 F !!! Spain they love to work late and eat lunch for 2-3 hours and then work a bit in the afternoon as well. It was funny to see these differences, but each place balances their lives and works in their own fashion. Traveling so much has taught me to be patient and having to work on speaking slow and not my fast east coast speed! Pictured here is one road in Dubai where there is so much construction going on, I would look out my window and see little ants driving around this huge desert and then I realized that this desert was islands being constructed and those tons of ants were huge trucks delivering sand! It was an amazing sight. The entry above is from Spain, its a pretty amazing difference within a one week time period!