Consider Waltham sort of like San Jose to the Bay Area, where there are lots of high tech companies and sort.
This is already my... I can't exactly recall, but I've been here now at least 5 times or so, and though most of my Waltham trip has been for internal reasons, such as training, I did come out here once on a business trip.
I miss my D80. Not that I had any chance to take real pictures, since I am either stuck in the office, restaurant, or hotel room for the most of the day, but just the fact that I do not have my camera makes me feel like a Christian without a bible, soldier without swords/guns, a camera-man without the camera... But I do not have a camera and there is really not much I can do at the moment.
It doesn't help that there is a beautiful forest behind the conference room I am located in, snow-covered from the last storm a few days ago, melting from the gentle rain...
Like anything in life, business trips can be good and bad.
The good:
- Rack up airline travel mileages (if you care)
- Accumulate credit card reward points (if it applies)
- Hotel honors/rewards membership (depending on the hotel)
- Travel to new places that I would not go otherwise
- Experience new culture/food/people
- You really need to travel a LOT to rack up enough points for free ticket (unless you fly SW)
- Unless you use these hotels frequently, these rewards are not as useful
- Some trips can keep you away from home for extended period of time (unless you want to?)
- Some trips can force you to go where you know you do not want to go (Fresno anyone?)
