I’ve been on a some work trips lately.  One of them was to Hood River Oregon.  We had a little bit of time one afternoon, so we decided to go up to the Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood.

On our way out, we stopped by the Vista House.  As the name suggests, it has a fantastic vista of the Columbia River Gorge.

I even made it back in time from my trip to catch Kathryn’s TSO concert!  

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Another trip was to Huntsville Alabama.  We stopped by the US Space and Rocket Center.  They have several rockets on display, but the king of them all is the Saturn 5 rocket.  This thing is massive!

They also had a space shuttle there.  It was a replica shuttle that they used to practice hoisting and attaching it to the rocket boosters.  This thing is also massive!

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Lastly, I took a trip to the NPE convention in Orlando Florida.  It is the country’s largest plastics convention and is held every three years.  Basically, if you have anything to do with plastics, you come to the show.  The reason why we went is that we recently purchased an injection molding machine so we can start making plastic enclosures for some of our electronics.  We went to learn more about the industry and make contacts.  We didn’t have any downtime on this trip really.  We arrived late on Monday night and left at 6 am on Friday morning.  It took us Tuesday through Thursday to walk the entire convention.  It filled up the entire Orlando Convention Center, that’s 2.1 million square feet.  It was split across the two convention centers.  The West building is a half mile long!

I put together this video with some trip highlights.

Here are the pictures from the video plus a couple more.

This was an eye opening trip.  As you can probably guess, the plastics industry is massive!  It was like being on set for a How It’s Made video.  So much fun.  I am very glad to be back home though and to give my feet a rest and be with my girls though.