Tucson - Anatomy of a Business Trip

Tuesday morning, we left for the Philadelphia Airport before sunrise, at 6 a.m.

actually.  It is about and hour and fifteen minutes to the airport.

This was the view from I 95 just before we pulled into the Airport grounds.

Pulling into the Philadelphia Airport.  7:15 a.m. I spent the next eight hours in 

airports and on planes, arriving in Tucson at 12:30 local time (3:30 my time).

I didn't really see much of Tucson. I saw a dust storm flying in. I saw the airport.    
I drove a whopping 18 miles from the airport to the hotel.  I spent my entire day 
and a half on hotel grounds.  

View from the back of the hotel lobby, overlooking the pool and the mountains 

behind the hotel.

Cactus along the road leading up to the hotel. I took a walk 

back down (85 degrees and 1:30 in the afternoon... what 

was I thinking?) the road to take photos.

This view is from outside the front of the hotel... from the upper level parking 

area.  Tucson is definitely not flat!

View from the balcony of my hotel room, looking left.  If I looked straight out I 

was facing the pool and to the right, the main hotel  lobby.

Wednesday, I spent nearly 9 hours inside one of the hotel conference rooms. I

took 14 pages of notes.  Afterwards I was spent. I went back to my room, called

for room service, and read until bedtime.

Thursday, I was up at 4:30 a.m. and drove myself back to the Tuscon airport in 

the dark.  And did the whole first day in reverse. Arriving back at my home 

around 7:30 p.m.  Another U.S. city down and no site seeing done.  Some day 

that's going to change.