Introductory Vacation after arrival

[Turboguy 6]

Appleseed sounds pretty cool. If I can make it, I will. I will be making some trips back that way but won't have a lot of advance notice. I will PM you ahead of my trip through Cinci. I would be happy to share a beer or two with you.

Baku was actually a pretty cool city. It fronts on the Caspean Sea and is very rich with oil money. About half the cars were new black mercedes, lexus or whatever and the other half were beat up old junkers. No middle ground. Lots of neat things to see and great restaurants. The company who took me over was one of the largest construction companies and was owned by the minister of trade which would be illegal here. The hotel room they gave me was about 60 feet from one end to the other with a wet bar. I was a little concerned about visiting a muslim country but they were great. I even got to go to a muslim funeral service which was pretty cool. I have never seen anyplace with as much new construction going on. I would bet there were more new buildings going up in the 8 story to 15 story size than in the whole eastern us put together. Hundreds of new buildings like that and miles and miles of new classy looking single family homes in the burbs. There was a lot of Turkish influence in their buildings so that was cool as well. I would recommend Baku to anyone.

[slim 1,523]

I always thought if I won the lottery I'd buy construction crane companies in developing nations. When you go to a city like Baku (or anywhere else from Abu Dhabi to Taipei) the sky is littered with hulking masses of steel setting up luxury condos for new-found elitists.

If the Air Force taught me anything, it's control the sky and you control everything underneath it as well.

Off to match my numbers....