Category: Travel

Welcome to Las Vegas!!! And Welcome To February!

Got up this morning, had breakfast, and then decided to head out for the short walk to the Las Vegas Convention Center. According to Google Maps it was a 4.2 mile walk form my hotel. I know it seems long, but I do that walk on a daily basis for my workouts. Anyways, Google Maps lies.

It was a little over 6 miles to the convention center. Passed some great scenery, but still it was long.

Went in, wandered around a bit, picked up my show information and then decided to take the Las Vegas Monorail back towards the hotel to see if I could eliminate part of the walk.

Well, that helped but still the 2 miles that Google Maps gave me from the end of the monorail at the MGM Grand to the hotel, was a little off and ended up just over 3 miles. I am going to have to figure out transport for the show tomorrow. At least I did find a convenience store to get some water, much cheaper than what I could find at the hotel.

It may be Lyft to the monorail station as I am not sure I want to do the 3 mile walk in the AM, or maybe I will to get my steps in.

Walking back to the hotel past the airport I noticed a contrail that was casting an interesting shadow near the end of it. It was just in the right place to act like a cloud and cast a shadow. Let’s let the conspiracy theorists talk about this little shadow creating weather changes and preventing rain.

Anyways I am done exploring for the day. I was able to find a Whole Foods within walking distance of the hotel, picked up some food for the rest of my trip. This may not be a good place for someone to be drunk from a night out partying. Look what I found along the sidewalk.

Tomorrow is the start of the conference.

Anyways, got to see some of Vegas in the daylight. Headed back to the hotel and had to wade through the cloud of cigarette smoke in the hallway near my room. This is ridiculous. I actually went down the the front desk to see if accidentally I was assigned to a smoking room. Nope, was not. It’s gotten batter, it seems as though someone had smoked up a storm in their room last night and they were tying to clean it.

I think I am close to 25K steps for the day. I think this is a wrap.

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I got to sleep in today!!!! Gifts of all gifts. My alarm went off at 6:30am this morning but I turned it off and rolled over to go back to sleep. Thankfully I was able to sleep after I found the breaker panel for my room and turned off the PTAC (Air Conditioning/Heater) as it was stuck in heat mode and none of the controls would shut it off. So…. I got a night of sleep. I may have to remember that idea in the future, most of these are noisier than hell. This is a hotel to remember not to stay at again. The lack of care extends from the rooms all the way through to the common areas. There is no excuse for the pool area to be left like this overnight.

Went down and had some fried eggs and turkey sausage for breakfast, and then decided to go do another 45-50 minutes at a fast walk on the treadmill. Once again my heart rate dropped drastically at about the 25-30 minute point. I don’t get what’s going on. In today’s and yesterdays cases I was able to feel it. It almost felt like I was going into afib again but it didn’t go that far. I did my 50 minutes, though slower than I would have liked, and immediately say down and took and ECG both with my watch and with my other ECG reader. On the watch nothing strange showed up, on the ECG reader that is 6 lead I did have a little bit of an irregular heart rate about 50% through the reading That one I am sending to my cardiologist.

I was at the airport a little over 3 hours early, that’s fine, I would rather be early than late. Also, I was able to sit down and read for a bit, I had some Chicken Caesar Salad for lunch, and attempted to find some de-caff coffee or tea. Yeh, that doesn’t appear possible. How is it possible that no one in the airport has decaf anything? Goes along with my feelings on Saint Louis.

Finally on my flight, headed to Denver….. Not home…. believe it or not I am now passing through to my next destination. Denver is a hub and it was either come here from Saint Louis or go to Washington, DC and then onto my next destination. I am still getting used to being at a hub airport in the middle of the country. I only wish that I could drop one piece of my luggage off along the way, but that is not happening.

Nice flight to Vegas, and a pretty easy time getting through the airport. The hotel shuttle took forever to show up, but other than that I made it to my hotel and room at a reasonable hour.

You can tell you are in Vegas as you step off the plane and are hit in the face with the gaming machines.

Anyways, I am here, safely, and out of the city I really don’t like, and back to civilization (sort of). Now for 4 days of fun and excitement at the AHR Expo. Talk to you tomorrow.

Good morning all!

This post will be written in sections. I am at Burlington International Airport at ass o’clock in the morning.

This airport is sort of neat, it has all sorts of games in a game area after security which is nice.

But otherwise it is a typical small town airport. I was the ONLY one in the security area this morning.

And the airline God’s appear not to be with me this morning:

Of course, right before they told us to put our laptops away for takeoff my manager asks me to test a few things and get back to him on a few other things. It is freaking stupid that we have flights without any wifi capabilities these days. Also if there is no wifi they should absolutely say so on the reservation screens. Makes it very difficult for those who have to work during their flight.

I am now officially out from under the no-compete portion of my employment agreement from the school I used to work for. I have a ton of HVAC and electrical material that I wrote but we never used that I may start posting. It seems a waste that everything that I wrote is just going to the great big bit bucket in the sky. I will have to edit some of it, but maybe thsi stuff will help someone out. I am trying to decide if I want to re-record my videos to update and remove some references that no longer exist and some potential copyright issues. Its time consuming but probably time to modernize.

Wandering the terminal here at IAD (Dulles International in DC) waiting for my flight. Wondering if he is forcing the gift stores to carry this crap.

One gift stores I won’t shop in.

And of course, when I travel in the winter this happens while I am gone.

At least just Jesse was able to clear the back yard with the leaf blower.

We are sitting here on the tarmac at Duels waiting for the crew to “resolve a maintenance issue with an in air system”. Yeah me.

Finally in the air lunch was good.

I will say the food on my United flights is very good.

On final approach from the North into Denver.

And today’s travels…. airline style

Anyways that’s a wrap. See you tomorrow!