Leavin on a jet plane...

I am no stranger to the road. Being a salesman, up until recently it was just part of what I had to do. I always just assumed that you had to take the bad with the good and the road was just part of my career that I had to deal with. I learned to enjoyed it and I was good at it.

The road can be an intriging place, an adventure, exploring something that you have never seen before. I got to see a bunch of the world that many people only dream about including most of Europe and Japan. But in that time, I danced the fringe of the road that you don't get to see unless you become a hard core roadie. There were a couple of years in my career that I logged well over 100k miles on an airplane and 80 nights a year away from home. The road gets ugly when you see it that much. You find yourself sitting next to someone upgraded in so called "First Class" enslaved to airplane schedules out of your control, jumping from on city to another only to find a chincy hotel room at the end of a long day. The hard part about being there is you don't see how hard it can be on life until you have an opportunity to be away from it for a while.

As most of you know, I took a new job in April, one that I thought would be more of the same, but turned out to be different. I have not set foot on a plane since July and I am getting ready to head out to San Diego this morning for a couple days. While I am excited to go and make some things happen at the event for my company, on this beautiful day I also can't wait to say...Hey its good to be back home again!