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Do I know the way to San Jose?

Yes, I do!

First, you hop onto an airplane at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. Take said plane to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago. Hop on another plane that takes you to San Jose. Pretty simple, eh?

The reason I am out here is because Knight Ridder, the parent company of the Belleville News-Democrat, had a visual journalism conference that started Sunday night and got done Wednesday at lunchtime. Thursday night is the start of the Society of News Design annual workshop, and I am sticking around for that as well since it, too, is in San Jose.

I will be in California all of next week as well. I had originally slotted that week so I could do Cycle North Carolina. But I had second thoughts about CNC after the way I rode during the West Shoreline Tour. I learned the week after Shoreline that I would be making the business trip to California the week before my vacation, so I figured I would stick around here another week and see a part of the world I had never seen before. I considered a bike tour out here, but most of the rides were too rich for my blood. One, a fund-raiser from San Francisco to Los Angeles, would have been good if I known about the business trip and ride much earlier. The catch for that ride was that I would have had to raise a minimum of $2,900! Wow!

Instead, I will be exploring Monterey, San Francisco and spending three days hiking in Yosemite National Park. Perhaps I will get some inspiration from the spirit of Ansel Adams and take some fantastic photos while I'm there. We'll see.

Shoreline Tour update: No, I am nowhere close to completing the article about the 2004 West Shoreline Tour. Just too many things to do in preparation for the California trip and several other projects I have been doing for work and outside work. Sorry, and keep posted!

Roger 0 comments 8:12 PM

Friday, September 03, 2004

What do you really know about Roger Kramer?

So you think you know a lot about me, don't you? Now it's time for you to prove it! I'm a subscriber to Kim Komando's Cool Site of the Day newsletter, and this morning's cool site was QuizYourFriends.com. I decided to put together a 10-question quiz about me, so you're welcome to check it out. You can find clues to some of the answers by looking through the rest of my Web site, but you'll simply have to guess at many of the answers. Once you're on the site, you can put together your own little quiz.

Take my Quiz on QuizYourFriends.com!

Roger 0 comments 1:02 PM