Well, I'm in the airport in Portland about ready to fly home.  This trip has been quite fun and much more enjoyable that other similar trips.  For example, I had the opportunity last night to go hang out at the PADNUG (Portland Area .NET User Group) to see/hear a great presentation on LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) that is forthcoming in Orcas - Visual Studio .NEXT/.NET 3.0.  The presentation was given by Nick Muhonen and was pretty awesome.  Recently, we had a presentation at our UtahDNUG on LINQ by Fabio Cavalcante that was also very good.

Following the meeting I hung out with a few of the guys from the group which was lots of fun.  I had my concerns about getting back to the hotel from the place and after having been given two different sets of directions from the group, I followed the advice to go across the Steel Bridge and found my way back ultra-easily

Today, I had the opportunity to man our booth at the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Launch Tour and demonstrate our product to several people and had lots of interest.  What a wonderful day.

On top of that, I had rented an H3 (Hummer) and had a blast driving it.  Aside from the low (narrow?) windshield I very much enjoyed driving it.  Were I to actually purchase one, however, I don't know if my wallet would enjoy me driving it.

My trip here was preceded with a brief two-night stint in Santa Barbara, which proved to be very productive and lots of fun.  So all in all, I've had my hands full, but it's been fun all the while.