Travel Travel Travel

You would think we have high power jobs with the amount of travel that we do. But apparently a PhD student and an environmental engineering can rack up the frequent flier miles as well. Claudia is spending a week at home and very excited about it, while I am in Columbus, Ohio at the 10th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics. Not quite as exciting a locale as last year's conference or as good as next year's, although those are the world congresses - last year in Venice and next year in Sydney. Now I just have to come up with some great paper so my advisor will foot the bill or at least most of it. Claudia wants to turn it into a vacation in Australia as well, so that might should be fun if all the cards fall into place.

I think Claudia is just happy to have a few weeks with little to no travel on the horizon. We got back from the honeymoon and then she left again for a meeting in Texas. She is racking up those Southwest frequent flyer miles though, earning free flights and free drink coupons too. Way to go Claudia. Now we just have to feel like actually having a cocktail on a flight sometime. Claudia has been practicing sleeping on planes mostly - she tries to be out before the wheels have even left the ground, she is pretty good at it too.

I however did not fly to Columbus however, I got to take a mini van with 6 other guys from my research group. Not too bad though.