Comments on: D-Day Trip 2008 http://andymeadows.com/2008/06/d-day-trip-2008/ Husband » Father » Entrepreneur » Geek Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:45:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: sherry@sherrylowry.com http://andymeadows.com/2008/06/d-day-trip-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-2 sherry@sherrylowry.com Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:45:23 +0000 http://andymeadows.com/?p=3#comment-2 Andy, what a wonderful idea for a trip, a tribute to grandfather - and also how your family is going about designing the process for it. Nothing replaces family memories and travel together is probably the very best way i've also ever experienced creating them. I was able to take our younger of two sons to Europe for me for an extended 3-wks when he was 10 yrs old. It helped turn him into a 'lifetime" travel-adventurer, plus totally transformed his college experience. For that, he was able to arrange his entire junior-year as an art photography major (San Francisco-based) into a full 2 semester of credits in portfolio creation. Through this, he saw all of Eastern and Western Europe, plus N. Africa while there. He's now passing that love of education through direct travel experience onto his wife and own kids (ages 5 + 8) out of their Austin base. I haven't thought of this in ages - so thanks for electing to "go personal" a bit with your blog - and I'm betting you soon find hundreds of ways to incorporate your trip into your professional interests. Seems to me you've already started - as it makes quite a statement, as is, about the signficance of people to you -- translating, of course, into the fact customers and clients happen to BE people. Sounds to me like you have a natural gift for recognizing that and i'm thinking I'm now in the process of learning how that plays out in your own career. Andy, what a wonderful idea for a trip, a tribute to grandfather – and also how your family is going about designing the process for it. Nothing replaces family memories and travel together is probably the very best way i’ve also ever experienced creating them.

I was able to take our younger of two sons to Europe for me for an extended 3-wks when he was 10 yrs old. It helped turn him into a ‘lifetime” travel-adventurer, plus totally transformed his college experience. For that, he was able to arrange his entire junior-year as an art photography major (San Francisco-based) into a full 2 semester of credits in portfolio creation. Through this, he saw all of Eastern and Western Europe, plus N. Africa while there.

He’s now passing that love of education through direct travel experience onto his wife and own kids (ages 5 + 8) out of their Austin base.

I haven’t thought of this in ages – so thanks for electing to “go personal” a bit with your blog – and I’m betting you soon find hundreds of ways to incorporate your trip into your professional interests. Seems to me you’ve already started – as it makes quite a statement, as is, about the signficance of people to you — translating, of course, into the fact customers and clients happen to BE people. Sounds to me like you have a natural gift for recognizing that and i’m thinking I’m now in the process of learning how that plays out in your own career.

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