We’ve been lucky enough to do a fair amount of travel over the years, Heather and I. When I say lucky, I mean that much of the time we could piggy-back on work trips. After all, if you had to fly to the other side of the world for a trade show, wouldn’t you take a detour on the way home? There have to be some advantages to running a small business with an export market.

And we always did things on the cheap. Which is how you meet the real people, even if most of them do work in hospitality and tourism.

Every trip has reinforced my faith in human nature. Beyond that, these stories aren’t to be taken too seriously. We just had a good time. I hope they’re entertaining.

If they are — and I get the chance — there’s a bit more I could resurrect from emails and diaries! Enjoy.

Contents

1993 — A day round the old Jakarta docks
2000 — California Dreaming
2001 — Trade shows, terrorism and travel