TRAVELING

I made my first solo trip to Mexico and Panama when I was sixteen; that trip made my father happy and my mother anxious. I spent time in Yucatan with a French anthropologist marking out unexcavated Mayan tombs and then walked to Monte Alban from Oaxaca to check out the Zapotec ruins where I saw a coca-cola machine next to the sacrificial alter at one of the sites. I've been on the road ever since and am still looking for new paths to take. I managed to travel to Europe almost every summer while attending Berkeley and then went back to Europe and skimmed North Africa; sometimes alone and other times with friends. Now I travel with my wife Alicia who enjoys it as much as I do. I was fortunate enough to recently manage a trip to Chile and Argentina with a small group of students as part of my Managing Multinationals (BSAD 333) Jan term course. One of my more recent adventures was a two week trip to China in late May 2006 where I had an opportunity to visit several historical cities and sites and meet with scores of US and Chinese businesspeople and government officials who were breaking ground for the first US financed and managed private industrial city in China. One of my most unreal travel memories takes me back to Tokyo where I woke up after a very long flight and went jogging at daybreak while still fresh from the memories of having spent the previous sunset with my oldest high school friend at his hogan at the base of Second Mesa on the the Hopi reservation. Within 24 hours I had transitioned from a traditional sweat bath dug into the side of an extinct volcano on Second Mesa (Arizona) to an Executive Board meeting at the top floor of the highest and most technologically advanced corporate tower in Tokyo---what a trip! The truth is that I've been blessed with a desire and opportunity to see some of the world. Hence, you will hear a little about my professional and personal travels if you attend one or more of my courses as learning from travel and family is what life is all about.