Time travel

It looks like any other business park in North America, but the flags tell us we’re in Canada, and the building sign is for IBM.

IBM Canada has the longest corridors that we’ve ever seen in a building!

Life’s a blur these days.

In the past 4 weeks, J has travelled Dubai – Frankfurt – Berlin – New York – San Francisco – Boston – London – Berlin – Paris – Berlin – Stockholm – Utrecht – Berlin – London – Toronto.

M has travelled Dubai – Frankfurt – Berlin – New York – San Francisco – Auckland – Nelson (NZ) – Singapore – Dubai – Frankfurt – Berlin – London – Toronto.

We get tired just thinking about how much time we spend in planes – and also how much time we waste going through airport security and travelling to/from airports. It truly is a case of planes, trains and automobiles!

Being on the road may sound so glamorous, but it has its downsides. When we travel, we’re always attending shows, meetings and conferences. Our normal day-to-day work continues to pile up – mostly in the form of emails and tasks that we do, and which still have to be done. Usually it takes up our “free” time to do this – as it has this weekend in Toronto. Venturing out of the hotel twice in 2 days to breathe some fresh air, clear out the cobwebs and walk the city has been a luxury.

We went up here….
...to look down there.

One of the most pleasant moments was accidental. While walking, we came across some tents that have been set up for the Toronto Jazz Festival. Venturing closer to one of them, we heard the sounds of musicians setting up. We casually sauntered into the tent and sat down to observe.

2005 Canadian Vocalist of the Year, Molly Johnson was on stage with her ensemble to perform a sound check.

We were delighted to sit in on the couple of songs that they played, and to forget about our workloads for a while. M even managed to get a few reasonable shots on her little point and shoot Canon Ixus 400!

Tomorrow, we’re on the move again.

Boston – here we come.