\n\tHello from Sacramento, CA\n<\/p>\n
\n\tThursday evening — October 22, 2015 (First post of this travelogue)\n<\/p>\n
\n\tI 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.\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tI 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.\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tThe 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.\n<\/p>\n
\n\tTomorrow morning I will fly back to Denver. \n<\/p>\n
\n\tThat is all for this trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading