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April 06, 2004
Misc travel notes, esp. for foodies
One of the things I love about my lifestyle is the huge range of interesting and rich environments and people (and food) I get to experience in such a short span of time. Last Friday I ended a fabulously fun GTD public seminar in Chicago, with 75 people from a huge range of organizations - Fortune 50 to local churches to universities to national ad agencies. And we were, as usual, just folks together, dealing with the same stuff. And great food and drink and schmoozing with Anne and Jodi at Trattoria 10 and then Blackbird.
Then down to St. Louis, at the relatively new Westin, right next to Cardinal stadium. Very hip restoration of an old downtown building, with a nice gym, and terrific restaurant, Clark Street Grill. Try their sea bass and asparagus salad. Did a one-day seminar for Ameren, the large and newly merged energy supply company in St. Louis. Had to thread through barricades to get to Ameren Monday, as Bush was tossing the first ball at the stadium right next door to me!
Then to Los Angeles today, ready for one of my one-day's for IMS (Institute for Management Studies) here downtown tomorrow. (I'm doing more than a dozen of these a year for this very nice group of folks who provide a pre-marketed and organized window into the corporate training world for me). And I just had one of the finest meals I've had in quite a while at the Water Grill right in the middle of downtown (Chilean turbot, yumm). I still don't "get" downtown L.A. (I mean like, who actually goes there, and when? ...though I'm always tickled when something new and terrific shows up on my radar that makes it seem that central L.A. is getting hipper and more energetic, instead of degenerating into some Kurt-Russellian future sci-fi nuclear waste garbage heap.
Posted by David at April 6, 2004 09:42 AM
Comments
ok. i promise not to blather on and on, but thank you so much for this davidallennesque travelogue. i love the commentary and the descriptions and ok... yes... the picture links!
Posted by: shar at April 7, 2004 12:36 PM
I enjoyed this post to see how your life is and the descriptions made me aware that you do all these seminars. I'm imagining some are open registration and that made me wonder if one would be valuable. I know that right now I couldn't afford a personal session with you. Great travelogue.
I am a software geek professionally and on a Mac. Wishing I had something as good as the Outlook with GTD plug-in because the most actionable STUFF that comes into my life comes in via email and I would like to use something like that plug-in toolbar to efficiently deal with it. I don't suppose your software provider is going to consider a Mac version of the plug-in for Outlook on OS X? Do you have suggestions for Mac users that I haven't found yet?
Posted by: Janet Tokerud at May 3, 2004 04:59 AM
