On a recent business trip to Las Vegas, I decided to partake in the hotel's happy hour that they provide to their guests Monday-Friday. Trying to be obscure, I drank my free beer and ate my free tortilla chips with salsa while standing at a bar top table in the corner, alone, until, that is, a flight crew joined me at the table. We started chatting and (since I had just read the article I share above) I had asked them if any of them explored the cities where they travel to for business. They all laughed and said, "no - not really". Me too, I admitted - thinking back to an earlier blog post about how I was going to make the most of my time in each city I traveled to. This was my first time at the hotel's happy hour event, so I guess that counts as doing something different and new!
Anyway, the pilot admitted that his wife always tries to encourage him to do something new and fun while he's away. On this trip, he decided to walk down the Las Vegas Strip. He happened upon the Bellagio hotel right when the water fountains started their impressive show. He stopped to watch the 10 minute show, took a picture of it on his iPhone, then emailed it to his wife. When it stopped, he thought to himself, "that's cool" and headed right back to the hotel. He laughed at the fact that he was only gone for about 25 minutes, but his wife congratulated him on "getting out" while in Las Vegas.
What perks me up while on the road is knowing that I'll get a solid 8 hours of sleep, I can watch whatever I want on the TV, that I can actually take the time to groom my eyebrows in the large magnifying mirror in the bathroom instead of the rear view mirror of my car between appointments, and, finally, the venti latte and Big Dipper Donut from Starbucks that I can expense as "Breakfast". It's the little things...
