{"id":1052,"date":"2008-11-03T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T05:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2008-11-03T00:01:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T05:01:27","slug":"two-more-trips-starting-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/two-more-trips-starting-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Two More Trips &#8211; Starting Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/merrillville_indiana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1053\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/two-more-trips-starting-wednesday\/usa-politicsclinton\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/merrillville_indiana.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"610,447\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;REUTERS&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks during a campaign stop at the Merrillville Fire Department Station #2 in Merrillville, Indiana, May 5, 2008. Indiana will hold one of the next Democratic primary elections on May 6.   REUTERS\\\/Jeff Haynes   (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;-1&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;USA-POLITICS\\\/CLINTON&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"USA-POLITICS\/CLINTON\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks during a campaign stop at the Merrillville Fire Department Station #2 in Merrillville, Indiana, May 5, 2008. Indiana will hold one of the next Democratic primary elections on May 6.   REUTERS\/Jeff Haynes   (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/merrillville_indiana.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/merrillville_indiana.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1053\" title=\"USA-POLITICS\/CLINTON\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/merrillville_indiana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks during a campaign stop at the Merrillville Fire Department Station #2 in Merrillville, Indiana, May 5, 2008.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>I have two more work related trips for the year.\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Starting Wednesday I&#8217;ll be in beautiful Merrillville Indiana doing an conference for <a title=\"IGA, They're doing OK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iga.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">IGA<\/a>. Although it&#8217;s only about 50 miles from home, I&#8217;ll be there Wednesday through late Friday or early Saturday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fiestaamericanagrandcoralbeach_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1054\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/03\/two-more-trips-starting-wednesday\/fiestaamericanagrandcoralbeach_web\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fiestaamericanagrandcoralbeach_web.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fiestaamericanagrandcoralbeach_web\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fiestaamericanagrandcoralbeach_web.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fiestaamericanagrandcoralbeach_web.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1054\" title=\"fiestaamericanagrandcoralbeach_web\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/fiestaamericanagrandcoralbeach_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The beautiful\u00a0Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Early Sunday I leave for Cancun Mexico (by far the better of the two trips) and come back from that on Friday the 14th. The job in Cancun is for <a title=\"FICP for U and ME\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ficpnet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none;\">FICP<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and there are several videos for that job that will be shot and edited on-site. We&#8217;re staying at the\u00a0<a title=\"Kick Ass Hotel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.professionaltravelguide.com\/fiesta-americana-grand-coral-beach\/hotels-547751\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none;\">Fiesta Americana Grand Coral Beach<\/span><\/a> which looks to be a very nice hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So this year is a record for travel jobs, in both quantity and quality of locations. From as close as Indiana and as far as Bangkok Thailand, and ending up the year in Cancun Mexico&#8230; it&#8217;s hard to complain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As you might expect, I&#8217;ll be doing posts from my travel locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks during a campaign stop at the Merrillville Fire Department Station #2 in Merrillville, Indiana, May 5, 2008. I have two more work related trips for the year.\u00a0 Starting Wednesday I&#8217;ll be in beautiful Merrillville Indiana doing an conference for IGA. Although it&#8217;s only about 50 miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[98,96,95,387,97],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-text","tag-cancun-mexico","tag-ficp","tag-iga","tag-travel","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-gY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1069,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/06\/here-in-exciting-merrillville-indiana\/","url_meta":{"origin":1052,"position":0},"title":"Here in Exciting Merrillville Indiana","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"November 6, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Nothing much to report. 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And while I still feel like there\u2019s more for me to do (the list is truly endless) I\u2019m more\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Text Post&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Text Post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/text\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":46,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/18\/seven-weeks-old\/","url_meta":{"origin":1052,"position":2},"title":"Seven Weeks Old","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"February 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 The boys are now 7 weeks old and you can really tell. They\u2019re just so much more mature now, they\u2019re walking and Andrew actually just started learning how to use the computer. 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