I have to file this under both work….and travel. Recently I was graced with the opportunity to travel to Chicago, which might not seem like a huge deal to most, but for me it was! Blend Interactive, the company I work for, sent me on my first “work trip”. Which is sort of a big deal, due to the fact we are still a very small company and we don’t have that kind of money to be just throwing around for what may or may not be a good reason. Well a month or so ago, the decided it was a good reason for myself and Joe to attend an eZ Publish Partner meeting in Chicago which is a very small deal as far as the rest of the world is concerned, but is a big deal with the North American eZ Publish community. Basically the major players and the eager starters in the North American market were there to half get the new happenings of eZ Publish in this very fast growing time period and also submit opinions on what will help this system grow in the US. So that was the business side of things.
The travel/personal side of things was the fact that I got to go there a day ahead of time to see the city in it’s full glory. Now I’ve been to the Twin Cities, SLC, San Francisco, Denver, Charlotte and a few other “big cities” previously, but I have never seen the “down town” atmosphere like there is Chicago. This place has the quintessential big city feel to it. It’s great to see the rising skyscrapers and the grand view out of the corner office in the UBS building in down town. (thanks to the guys at Duo Consulting) Then to cap it all off, we had some cocktails and a small dinner at the John Hancock Center (the second tallest building)…where the quote of the day came from Joe. “The problem with the Sears Tower is, you can’t see the Sears Tower from the Sears Tower!” Touche my friend, touche.
