Neat or weird places that your job sent you to. - page 1 -

• Neat or weird places that your job sent you to. by marshd1000 on 04 Feb, 2009 11:45
• I know that some of you have gone on business trips and other work related trips.  I can't claim to be a high powered business man.  I am the warehouse manager at a carpet store.  But in 2005, my boss flew me from Seattle to Miami to deliver some hardwood flooring to this customer's condo near the water in Downtown Miami.  While there my boss let me have a day to play on Miami Beach.  That was so fun!
  
  On Monday, my boss sent me with the company truck to deliver some carpet and pad to a place near Butte, Montana called Basin, MT.  Where I went is just east of the Continental Divide to a health resort called "The Merry Widow Health Mine", www.merrywidowmine.com .  I did not really see any of the facilities as they were closed for the winter.  But what they do is have people go into these mine shafts and breath in the low levels of Radon Gas.  It is supposed to help arthritis.
  
  Anyway, it was a nice change of secenery for me.  I also got to stay with a fellow SBG, Bubbadave3 from North Idaho and have a nice visit.  I leave from Idaho to go back to Seattle today.
  
  Here is a pic of me at the Continental Divide, on Interstate 15 just outside of Butte, Montana.  This will be my new avitar for awhile.

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• #1 by time2shine on 04 Feb, 2009 11:50
• Sounds like a great trip, Marsh.
  I've been on one business trip and that was to Silicon Valley - San Jose.  The trip was short, but I was blown away that they sent me down on a first class flight! 
• #2 by Paul on 04 Feb, 2009 11:58
• Let's see, twenty years U.S. Marine Corps:
  
  Canada, Mexico, Honduras, Panama, Bolivia, Columbia, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Iceland, Norway, England, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Greece, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Japan, Korea, Wake Island.   That's all.
• #3 by schro on 04 Feb, 2009 12:01
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  Honolulu was the only place that I would call "neat".
  
  Most of my work is up & down the west coast.
• #4 by SLYinKC on 04 Feb, 2009 12:02
• Can't say that I have been to anywhere strange of unusual.  But I have been sent to the site of this year's SLYBALDCON 2009.....Houma, LA.   Nice little town that I had never heard of until my company had a subsidiary there.
  
  Had some great cajun and seafood.
• #5 by PeripheralxMvmnt on 04 Feb, 2009 12:28
• My last job i was a Dell On-Site Repair Tech and my territory was basically the whole eastern side of Virginia, except for DC, Norfolk and the Eastern Shore. I would get a lot of calls for the naval base in Dahlgren, and that was always neat. I had calls in the buildings where they developed the Tomahawk missle, the Millennium Gun, and the Aegis weapon system.
  
  There was one building i went into where my escort just said plainly "When we go through this next hallway, its best if you just look down and straight ahead." I know we passed armed guards because i could see them in my peripheral, but i didnt know, nor did i want to know, what was there. (who am i kidding, i totally wanted to know what was there. heh.)
  
  
  
  On the Millennium Gun....
  
  The Millennium Gun, a naval deck weapon system, delivers inner-layer defense against sea-skimming antiship missiles, antiradiation missiles, and aircraft. It is also effective against fast-attack surface craft and near-shore targets during operations in littoral and riverine waters. Creating a "wall of lead," the Millennium Gun fires 35-mm ammunition, including the advanced Ahead round, at 1,000 rounds per minute. Each Ahead round disperses 152 metal subprojectiles. Forming a cone-shaped pattern, the subprojectiles destroy a target's control surfaces, seeker and other vital equipment components as a target moves through the wall of lead. The gun's muzzle brake programs each Ahead round as it exits the barrel, setting distance and subprojectile dispersal pattern.
  
  Lets do the math....
  
  It fires 1000 rounds per minute through the barrel. Each of these rounds then divides into 152 seperate projectiles in a cone shaped pattern.
  
  1000 X 152 = 152,000 projectiles per minute
  
  http://www.gizmag.com/go/4006/   for pictures.
• #6 by marty22 on 04 Feb, 2009 12:42
• Salamanca, NY for the STate. It is now a wealthy Indian Casino reservation. Back in 1983, I stayed at a small motel which was part of a golf course/ski area resort. No phones. No Tv's. No nothing. No food actually near Olean, NY (55 miles Sw of Buffalo). It was like being in the 1880;'s.
• #7 by Mikekoz13 on 04 Feb, 2009 12:49
• About five years ago I was sent to San Jose, Ca. for a seminar. There is a great museum there called the Rosicrurian Egyptian Museum. I remember a very large number of homeless people in the public park.
  
  Back in the early 80's I went to Fort Collins Colorado whcih was pretty cool.
• #8 by D.A.L.U.I. on 04 Feb, 2009 13:13
• Great places, New York City of course, London, Stornaway, Scotland, all of Europe, Marakesh and Rabat.  Interesting--southeast Louisiana outside New Orleans after Gustav, tremendously industrious and brave folks facing many problems with good humor and patience; upstate New York--beautiful and inviting in the fall, beautiful and unbelievably cold for a southern guy in December and January.  Other places, Iowa, Houston after Ike.  Love Austin--only other city I would live in if I couldn't be in NO (except NYC but the cost of living makes living impossible!)  Those are some, but generally I find something interesting everyplace I go--I'm sure there are some places that aren't so, but I hope I never find them.
• #9 by DCdome on 04 Feb, 2009 13:30
• Two places outside the USA where my work took me to live for extensive periods of time:  Toronto, Ontario and Jerusalem, Israel.
  
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• #10 by ChromeDomeJohn on 04 Feb, 2009 15:06
• wish we could have met up, marsh.  my family lives 20 miles from Butte (i visit about twice a year). 
  Places I've been sent (or got myself sent to via grants while I was teaching);   India; Japan, Israel, Greece, Turkey, Italy.  All places with their own unique charms. ...
• #11 by Ringside on 04 Feb, 2009 15:23
• When I was in the Army I lived in Europe, Korea, Hawaii, Texas, N Carolina, Kansas.  Out of the Army, I have been sent on assignment to lecture, referee, or preside over fights in , Puerto Rico, Las Vegas, S Carolina, Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Montreal, Miami, Fort Walton Beach, Houston, Dallas, Cozumel, Honduras, Caymans, Jamaica.
• #12 by Alexander215 on 04 Feb, 2009 15:55
• I've never been out of the Maritimes, but this Monday my current company is sending me to three places in Maine, all expenses paid! Sadly I won't have any time to do any sight seeing.
• #13 by zzaapp on 04 Feb, 2009 16:38
• A couple years ago, I had a job to do at an air national guard base.   We were on the roof of the air traffic control tower, and they were launching fighters.  As they passed by the tower, they were in the air, with their landing gear up, and we were looking DOWN at them.  REALLY COOL...  You don't get a chance for that kind of view too often.
• #14 by Timmay on 04 Feb, 2009 21:59
• New York City, Las Vegas and Chicago