Hello from Sacramento, CA
Thursday evening — October 22, 2015 (First post of this travelogue)
I am in Sacramento for an NTT assignment. This was a public class held at the Holiday Inn Express (see map below). This was my favorite class to teach: Mechanical Drives. To make it even better I much prefer the public class as opposed to our on-site classes for just one customer. The class was from Tuesday though today. It went well, except that only half of the hands-on equipment was shipped. That created some significant logistic problems, but we made it work and the students seemed to enjoy the class.
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I flew out a day early (Sunday) and stayed at the Holiday Inn Express in Grass Valley, CA so that I could visit an old friend who has a racing parts machine shop up in the “back woods” of the gold mining country (see map below). He is a good customer of Gates (blower belts for drag racing vehicle) and we became good friends over the years that I called on him for Gates. Indeed, folks say we look like brothers and we certainly think a lot alike. Monday afternoon I traveled back to Sacramento so that I could get prepared for the class.
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The weather out here could not have been better. Very sunny and temperatures in the 70s and 80s. You can sure tell that they have a drought here and it is sad to see that some of areas are so brown. They are hoping that the el Niño will provide some much needed moisture this winter.
Tomorrow morning I will fly back to Denver.
That is all for this trip.