Road Warrior Street Cred

In reality, it's not something about which to be super proud. Proving your road warrior toughness is, well, maybe a sign of misplaced priorities.

Yet, with not so many accomplishments to tout, I submit for your consideration the current itinerary in which I am currently engaged.

Sunday evening, March 8^th

• train from DC to NY Penn Station, arrive at 11pm
  

 

Monday evening, March 9^th

• train from NYC back to DC, arriving home at 10:30pm
  

 

Tuesday morning, March 10^th

• Leave home at 7am for a 9am flight from DCA to Toronto with entire family.
  
• Sit in Toronto airport for 6 hours. Fortunately, there's wi-fi and kids have iPads.
  
• Depart Toronto at 5pm to Israel.
  

 

Wednesday, March 11^th

• Arrive in Israel at 9am. Get car and drive to Jerusalem. Stay in Israel for 4 full days.
  

 

Sat. night, March 14^th

• Leave Israel at 10:55pm, flying to Newark.
  

 

Sunday morning, March 15^th

• Arrive in Newark at 4.30am
  
  
• The baggage door on the plane won't open, so we all wait by the carousel for 90 minutes (we can't go through customs w/o our bags). A huge line amasses. Fortunately, I have Global Entry and get my own line.
  
• Go to United Club, where I take a shower and drink the 2^nd of what will be multiple coffees.
  
• Take shuttle from C gates to A gates for 8:55am flight to Austin.
  
• Get on the plane, only to find out that there's a maintenance issue and we have to deplane.
  
• Then, we have to change gates, so we take the shuttle BACK to C gates for a new plane.
  
• That plane, eventually, leaves Newark at 11.55 (3 hours late).
  
• Arrive in Austin at 3pm local time (roughly and hopefully as I'm writing this while on the plane)
  
• Oh, by the way, I have brought 2 HUGE bags back with me to try and make things easier for NFO and kids when they fly back from Israel w/o me. (Needless to say, one of them-the one I needed-didn't make it to Austin in time)
  
• Attend Sprinklr SXSW party
  
  

Monday, March 15

• Leave Austin around noon and fly (via Houston) back to Reagan National where I will wait for about 4 hours and meet up with family returning from Israel via Toronto. They will have a 4-5 hour layover and get in around 11pm.
  
• Take family home and hopefully help get them settled.
  

 

Tuesday, March 16

• Home. Yay.
  

 

Wednesday, March 17

• 8am flight from Dulles to Seattle. Arrive in Seattle at 11am local time. Give presentation at 4.15pm local time.
  

 

Thursday, March 18

• 8am flight BACK from Seattle to DC. Arrive home around 5pm.
  

 

So, when all is said and done, we are looking at:

• 8 days
  
• 8 airports
  
• 4 time zones (where a night was spent)
  
• 3 countries
  
• 2 continents
  
• 2 train stations
  

 

And let's not talk about next week!