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canyonwalkerThis evening I packed for a trip. Not just any trip; a business trip. The kind I haven't had in over 2 years!
Tomorrow I'm headed out to Las Vegas for a few days for a sales kick-off (SKO). It'll be a few days of training, aka Death by PowerPoint, trying not to overeat at team dinners, and trying not to stay up too ridiculously late drinking and socializing with colleagues.
After a day of hiking somewhere near Las Vegas we'll fly onward together to Amarillo, TX.
"Amarillo?" you ask. "What's in Amarillo?"
Actually nothing. But a little south of it is Palo Duro Canyon State Park, billed as "The Grand Canyon of Texas". We'll go hiking there for a day or a day and a half then fly home.
I felt an odd bit of stress about packing. It's not that I haven't packed for a trip in 2 years. I've taken a number of leisure trips. in the past 10 months. But this is my first business trip in 2 years. There are different things I have to think about packing for business. And on top of that, it's a combination leisure and business trip. That means I'm packing things that normally don't go together, like hiking boots and pocket squares. It turns out that packing, like riding a bike, is one of those things you never forget after mastering it years ago. The packing I felt anxious about was done in about 30 minutes.
Tomorrow I'm headed out to Las Vegas for a few days for a sales kick-off (SKO). It'll be a few days of training, aka Death by PowerPoint, trying not to overeat at team dinners, and trying not to stay up too ridiculously late drinking and socializing with colleagues.
Combining Work and Leisure
After a few days of SKO I'll be staying in Vegas an extra day and Hawk will join me. But not to gamble or see shows. We'll go hiking in Las Vegas. Likely we'll hike Calico Rock in the mountains west of town to see amazing far-off views of the city like we did several years ago... though that plan, unlike the trail I'm referring to, is not graven in stone.After a day of hiking somewhere near Las Vegas we'll fly onward together to Amarillo, TX.
"Amarillo?" you ask. "What's in Amarillo?"
Actually nothing. But a little south of it is Palo Duro Canyon State Park, billed as "The Grand Canyon of Texas". We'll go hiking there for a day or a day and a half then fly home.
Packing
Those are a lot of plans for the next 7 days. My plans for this evening, by comparison, were simple: get packed.I felt an odd bit of stress about packing. It's not that I haven't packed for a trip in 2 years. I've taken a number of leisure trips. in the past 10 months. But this is my first business trip in 2 years. There are different things I have to think about packing for business. And on top of that, it's a combination leisure and business trip. That means I'm packing things that normally don't go together, like hiking boots and pocket squares. It turns out that packing, like riding a bike, is one of those things you never forget after mastering it years ago. The packing I felt anxious about was done in about 30 minutes.
