Six days on the Road (and I'm gonna make it home tonight...)

I've been on the road for the past week, first attending classes on tourism/travel marketing and now working a trade show in the Dallas Fort Worth area.  After six nights in hotels, I am ready to be home!

I spent 4 nights and 5 days at the Hyatt Lost Pines Resort and Spa near Bastrop, TX.  Although I was there for work (DAYS of classes!), being at such a beautiful place really did feel a bit like vacation. . .

I love my industry, and I am a nerd about things like marketing trends, so spending a week with like-minded people learning was a little like heaven for me.

...and having one free afternoon to spend lounging around the adult pool certainly helped with this "heavenly" feeling!

After the week of classes ended, I loaded up and headed to Irving, TX to set up an Oklahoma Tourism booth at the "DFW Ultimate Women's Expo."  I enjoy working trade shows- it's fun to meet people and get to talk about all of the fun (and almost always unknown) things to do in my great state.  

The show ends today at 5, and I'll be loading up and heading home.  I am so very ready to see my husband, my fury babies and my BED!  

Since I've technically been out of the office for a week, I have to be at work bright and early tomorrow- while I'd love to have a day to rest (read:  clean the house, unpack and get laundry done) I can't complain:  I have a job that I love and business is busy, busy, busy!

I was thinking this morning as I was packing in my hotel room about a few of the travel quirks I have:

* It doesn't matter if I am in a hotel room for a night or a week- I have to completely unpack my luggage.  I use the closet and the drawers in the room- I cannot stand to get dressed out of a suitcase!  My husband finds this hilarious, and apparently this isn't normal...

* I only eat at local restaurants OR restaurants that aren't available around my hometown.  (unless I am ordering pizza in my room- then it's papa johns or dominoes all the way!)

* The first thing I do when I get to my hotel room is turn on the TV, even if I am not interested in watching anything.  For some reason, having that background noise makes it feel less like a hotel room and more like my home.  (This is actually kind of sad-  I am a TV junkie!)

* When flying, I love to get to the airport early.  I find it peaceful to have plenty of time to get to my gate and just read, sip coffee and people watch.  

* Also when flying, I must touch the outside of the plane every time I am boarding.  I just give the big piece of metal and little 'love tap' as I am passing from the jetway into the plane.  It isn't so much a superstitious thing, because I really am not a nervous flyer.  It's just something I do, every single time I fly.  

Do you travel quite a bit?  If so, do you have any weird quirks or habits while on the road?

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