Almost time for travel

This coming Thursday Nicole and I will be boarding a plane for Italy. My conference is next week in Milan, so we'll be doing that first, getting it all set up over the weekend, then doin' our thang Mon-Wed.

After we wrap up the conference, Nicole and I will be doing a little self guided (for the most part) tour of Italy, from Milan to Rome, where we leave the end of the following week.

I'm both excited and nervous. Traveling a foreign country is always a bit daunting, neither of us speaks Italian, and Spanish is sorta similar, but not so similar we could use it. Thankfully it seemed like most folks could at least interact in english, when I was there a month ago. Except the rude gal at the airport snack shop, her english sucked, and her attitude was atrocious.

It's made finding a project a little tough, since being gone for two weeks is a bit of a barrier, so I'll be glad to be home and nave no further travel (aside of Japan, but that's only three days) to worry about.

I'll try to blog as much as I can as we travel. I'll have the MacBook AIR with me. The MacBook Pro is staying home. It'll be interesting to not have my "Main Machine" with me, the AIR is great, but it won't have a ton of things I'm used to having with me. Oh well, it's technically a vacation so I shouldn't need any code or anything.... we'll see. The nice thing about the AIR is that I won't be worried about my code (my life's work) or even my writing (it'll be backed up to .MAC each time I find Wireless internet), and I can just toss it in my bag and go. Many have said it but the construction is quite remarkable, so tossing it in a bag and going, won't bother me much.

Here's to a fun trip!