Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
So the big news is out. I am leaving at 9:30 PM next Tuesday (1/9/07) to head to Cordoba, Argentina. I will not return until 6:30 AM on 2/4/07 making my stay a little over 3 weeks. My wife would argue that it is not a "little over" 3 weeks but rather "just shy" of 4 weeks (Semantics!).
Our group is moving a portion of our work "off shore" to Argentina and I volunteered (and fought) for the right to be one of the first trainers. My (former) team leader is catching the same flight as I am taking out of Dallas so at least I will not be alone on the 14 hour flight and 2 hour lay over in Chile. There are several people that are from various parts of Argentina as well that are coming to stay in Cordoba while I will be there. I have been in many conference calls with these folks and they speak English well enough so I feel confident I will be all right (if not I just won't leave the hotel room!).
In a way it is exciting since I have only been to Canada and The Bahamas and some would argue that those don't really count as "other" countries. The times that I went, you did not even need a passport to get in / out of the country. So this is very exciting. On the other hand, in almost 10 years of marriage, the wife and I have only been apart about 10 nights (total). So this will by far be a record. I am not looking forward to being away from the wife a kids that long. They are heading back to Indiana for almost the entire time so at least they will be around family. Vonage only charges a nickel a minute for calls to Cordoba so we should be able to keep in touch relatively cheaply.
Anyway, I will blog more about this as the time approaches and you just know that there will be a blog (or two) about flying for 14 hours. I will try to remember to post some pictures as well.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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