We had very good interviews on our trip that help me understand how to do business in china.
Bad news first: On a recent trip it took me five flying legs to go from Palm Beach to San Francisco.
But then there have also been challenges of his own making, such as spending months of political capital on health care reform on top of an already-packed agenda, which led voters from across the political spectrum to tell me on this trip to Virginia that Obama tried to do too much, too fast.
The MBII served me well on my trip to Supai it emerged without a single scratch, despite my occasional run-ins with canyon walls and heavy backpacks and it served me fantastically back in New York: the nylon band and zesty orange accents make it an excellent casual watch for short-sleeve summer days.
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Nevertheless, going on this trip was really important to help me understand the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They instantly became the best food we've had on the trip thus far, at least for me.
The prime minister only learnt of the resignation just before it was announced on board a plane taking him and a group of businessmen on a foreign trip (Downing Street have asked me not to identify its destination for security reasons).
These are not comforting thoughts: as Paul Krugman said to me earlier this week on his trip to London, if the eurozone is going to end, it's a fair bet that the process will start with a Spanish bank run - and a tussle with the ECB.
When I suggested that my 87 year old mother in law try a portable wheelchair on a trip she had planned, she looked at me cross-eyed.
"If I go on a business trip and someone tried to sexually assault me, I could sue them, I could sue the company, I could sue just about everybody, " she said.
"Laos will be the high point of your entire trip, " my travel agent told me before I embarked on a 32-night, 14-hotel jaunt through Southeast Asia last summer.
On a business trip a few weeks later, it hit me again, so bad this time that I was racing down the shoulder of the interstate trying to get to the ER.
To see that, so early on, has been one of the thrills of this trip for me.
For me, I went on a two-week cycling trip in the south of Spain on my own.
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And also because my girls caught me in a moment of weakness on a long road trip.
This reminds me of an observation made by Warren Buffet on a trip to a third-world country.
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On that trip, I was able to bring about 350 filters with me.
After a brief chat, Randolph handed me a sealed manila envelope with the trip number 28 stamped on the back.
The abundance of Chinese equipment that I saw at work on my 2009 trip to Kenya and Tanzania provided the anecdotal evidence that convinced me that this is a real and immediate opportunity for the Chinese equipment makers.
With my health on the mend, I posted some travelogue articles via hotel WiFi and made a couple of phone calls that came through with impressive clarity on the Droid II Global phone that Verizon lent me for the trip.
My most recent trip to a retail sales conference, went flawlessly on the way out, which made me feel like things had to go wrong coming back.
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Sorrentino, a Forbes contributor, spoke with me Thursday from Paris, France, where he is currently on a trip with plans to return Friday, and says he has been in constant contact with his team to ensure the support systems are all working as intended.
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Mike Leiter raised with me that he was in fact scheduled to go on leave to meet his son, and he asked me whether or not he should cancel that trip.
New York (CNN) -- This week I was sent on a three-day work trip to New York because, for some unfathomable reason, these people trust me outside the confines of my cube.
Halfway through the trip, which resembled a sort of purgatory where I was forced to room with the only people below me on the popularity totem pole I pray they all went on to greatness Paul, for whatever twisted reason, decided I was cool, too.
For me that means an overnight trip from Edinburgh to London is going to use up a month of data on the lowest EE tier in three days of work.
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Let me just make one point on -- there was a report -- you mentioned the foreign trip -- there was a report going around, I saw on my email before I came out here, that the President was visiting the Taj Mahal in India, despite walking through the schedule yesterday.
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