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!