Business Travel Tips

Traveling for Business is Less Stressful When You Take Time to Prepare and Organize.

1. Start with the purchase of a good carry one bag. Any seasoned business traveler will tell you carry on is the only way to travel. It will keep you out of baggage claim and you will never have to worry about lost luggage. When considering the items to pack think of those things that are necessities and those items that may make your business travel just a little more comfortable.

2. When choosing transportation for business travel the distance that you will be traveling should be considered. Although air travel is the first choice when it comes to long journeys for a shorter trip that is only a couple of hundred miles away a train or automobile may be the better choice.

3. Always try to stay in hotels that cater to business travel. Most of these hotels will have high- speed internet access and will offer access to business machines.

4. One of the more important business travel tips is to check your cellular service prior to leaving for another city. Check with your cell phone service provider. You may find that they don't provide service where your business travel takes you and therefore you will need to find an alternate carrier for this trip. Can you imagine not finding out until you're there!

Have a good journey!

freezing summer

Its 1:30 a.m. most people are still asleep or even just going to bed. I, instead, am wide awake ready to start my day, problem is, it's still dark as a well outside. So I settle down with Lance Armstrong's book "Its not about the bike" and do some reading. 5:30 finally rolls around and the sun is up just enough to hit the road. layering up because for some reason its like low 40's high 30's ish outside in the middle of summer I hit the road pedaling. Fog pretty much is everywhere and ends up covering my cyclocomp and HRM, that or the heat from my lungs mixed with friged air fogged them up. anyways it was cold! rode for some odd hour and fifteen mins and ended up finaly getting back and i couldn't feel my feet at all! completly numb! kinda weird to go riding in the supposade middle of summer and your face is about as rosy when its the middle of winter when its snowing. even odder thing is by 2ish p.m. its like 70-80 degrees outside and blue sky, but super windy.

I've outgrown something again

Looking at my map today for a new place to ride, I realized that I have outgrown the boarders of it... a long time ago. That’s 200 sq. miles worth of criss-crossed land that i have ridden my bike on, and have memorized like the back of my hand. Good thing I'm moving in 6 weeks to a completely new place with rolling hills just waiting to be explored and lose my self in :-)

My bike is still clean!! well sorta....

That was purely amazing!! My first mtn bike ride of the season (if it ever ended or began again) that the trail was dry!!! Even the normaly super wet/muddy part was just kinda fat blobs of that half dry dirt/mud stuff with a little water mixed in for flavor. Welcome to Western Washington. It takes till the middle of June maybe July... usually never... for anything to dry out. And that trail is high up the mountain, Low trails are still mud beds... next time up though I'm gunna have weed-wacker in hand because the trail was WAY overgrown, good thing we had stop to clean up the trail a little bit when the horses came hobblen up the trail... not cool to come flyen around a corner and run into those guys.... trust me, thank you.

Well I'm getting super anxious... possably annoyed?? to get my front wheel back for my road bike. Had to get it tuned up as the spokes were kinda outta wack and i had a loose one which created a bump on the wheel, didn't trust riding 50 mph down some hill anymore. Bum thing is though that the shops... any of them.... counldn't get to it till monday, unless i wanted to pay a premium for on the spot. Ah well only 2 days left to go, been waiting for 3 already. Got some sweet new tires for it though. Blue Vredestien Fortezza's, they look pretty sick with my black/platinum fade bike!

Finish with a bang!!

Now that is what I call deffinate green air and brown shorts time!!! Took my last final today and then got to do the coolest thing ever! I got to go for a mtn bike ride with Glen and Neil. Before I render you the story of complete madness, I must stop for a moment and tell you about the weather thats been going on here. Yes the weather is crazy enough to talk about so deal with it for a sec. Its been raining, and then its been sunny and warm. then its been rainy... then its been warm. cycle continues for a while and what do you have?? Washington where everything is green and fifty feet tall. See wasn't that just amazing?? Ok Back to the ride. I wanted to bust out the coolest ride ever to finish off my my college carrer here at Centralia College so my goal was to go fast and stop for nothing. That means no slowing down, no stoping for pictures, and no taking it easy on crashing. :-) I managed to do all these things... the trail was a wet mud ball as normal, and i took off, well took off really isn't the term, I dropped the two guys like they had never even gotten outta thier car yet. mud was flying everywhere. the undergrowth soon became part of me as I went barrelen down the trail cutten corners off, and whippen through over grown ferns that obscured the trail from any visable means of seeing where I was going. I looked like a moving bush. my bike had green stuff stuck on it all over and i had fern leaves that got stuck between the break leavers and just hung out. I was a sight to behold, not to mention I was covered in mud to boot. Well because I couldn't see the trail I tended to make my own at times. by making trails I'm saying I nail a corner, I biff the corner and I don't just endover the bike and go sailing like a hanglider, but I look like a cat fight that is sailing through the air like a hanglider. My bike and me would go tumbling into the brush in a mass of flying metal, plastic and human, and then come to rest in a pile of tangled triangles, wheels, legs and arms. I hammered my crashes. But for as much as I got slammed durring them I only ended up with a scratch/welt that extends from my inner knee, up and out over my quad to 70's shorts length visable. Now you that know me and my short stature, you know that this is a decent length. Were talking a foot of red, raised, raw, goodness. But what do I care man, I jump back on the bike and hammer off down the overgrown, mud slinging, slippery corner crashing funness. Awesome ride my freinds!! and an awesome way to finish off two years of college!! Exhilarating!!

BTW if anybody needs a bike repair, or is in the area of Olympia, drop by this guys shop. He used to turn wrench at several shops and is certified through the program in Ashland, OR (UBI), but decided to go out on his own. check him out, and drop your bike off for some proabably much needed love!