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It's been an exhausting couple of weeks.
Things I've learnt:
Things I've learnt:
- Driving in mud is nasty, driving on ice is scary - driving on icy mud is tantamount to insanity, even with 4WD.
- Driving on icy mud with a 1,000 foot drop to one side of a single track dirt road with 17 hairpins up a mountain miraculously improves your driving skills.
- It is possible to take a dying company and come up with one big idea that completely changes the way the world thinks of its brand.
- 3-D printing-as-a-service is one of the coolest and neatest ideas around.
- Good GPS makes driving in a blizzard an awful lot easier.
- 6F at 6PM is bloody cold.
- The Arizona and Utah deserts are spectacularly beautiful in the snow.
- A US National Park annual pass is a wonderful thing.
- It is possible to spend nearly a week in Vegas and not see a single bride.
- Bad colds and CES do not mix well, but hefty doses of bio-active smoothies and cold drugs do help.
- GPS locator beacons are now so affordable everyone who goes into the great outdoors should have one.
- Good design is everywhere.
- Robots are still cool - educational robots are even cooler.
- The silence of the snows above a deep canyon is a perfect stillness that leaves you in awe of the world around you.
- Ravens are the kea of the American Southwest - smart and teamworkers.
- The state of Utah has some of the maddest road engineers in the world.
- Coal Creek Canyon is out there somewhere.
- It is possible to get a great steak in the middle of nowhere on a Sunday night.
- Zion has some the most amazing icicles I have ever seen.
- If you're going to be caught in a blizzard, Bryce is one of the prettiest places to watch the snow.
- Tin churches in the high desert make me think of U2.
- Bono's mullet from the 1980s was really quite something.
- Frogs are not a good conference give away.
- You can clean the sensor of a DSLR easily.
- The same rap song in every corridor and lift in a hotel can be rather annoying.
- California is surprisingly wide.
- You can get a decent curry in the USA.
- 9600 ft is a long way up for a road.
- 70F at sea level is really rather pleasant for January.
busy
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