I Have Done Too Much.......

Just got off the phone with a relatively new acquaintance.  During the conversation we were discussing The Four Seasons Hotel chain.  I said I remembered being in the Four Seasons in Dallas and Houston but I have been in so many hotels around the world that one pretty much looks like another to me and I get them all confused.  There was a pregnant pause at the other end of the line.  I realized the person to whom I was speaking, who is male, had thought I committed some sort of Freudian slip.  I had to quickly explain I traveled for many years for business all over the world; more or less intimating I was not a world class hooker but a legitimate business executive.

After the conversation I started thinking about the reason he was surprised and somewhat disbelieving that a woman would travel all over the globe in the business world.

It is really true that I have traveled so much and for so many years I do tend to forget where I have been.  Even when I was traveling I would sometimes wake up and shake out the cobwebs to remember what city I was in at the time.

Once my former husband and I were both in Toronto on the same dates.  He was in a hotel across town and I was in a hotel downtown.  He sent me flowers and wanted me to have dinner with him and his colleagues but I had a big bash I had to attend for my own business counterparts and he could not accompany me to my function.  In short we were in the same city for three days and could not get together.  We did manage to carve out some time over the weekend to spend with each other at home.

Places I have lived:  Born in Texas; raised in Washington, D.C. area (Falls Church and Alexandria, Virginia); Maryland; Houston; Beaumont; Atlanta, Great Sacandaga Lake in Upstate New York; East and West Caroga Lakes also in Upstate New York; Kinderhook, NY;  Wallkill, NY; Atlanta; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Bologna, Italy; Paris; Marseille; Sydney, NSW Australia; Moss Vale, NSW, Australia.  I know there are more cities but I cannot recall them at the moment.

By now you get that I was really a rolling stone and those are just the places I lived; not part of my business travel itinerary.

For several years I was in the convention and decorating business and I sold convention services but I would also go in with the crews and stay while they set up the conventions and then my staff and I would do the billing for the convention on the show floor while the show was taking place.  I was in a lot of hotel convention sites as well as some very large convention halls and spent a lot of time in the belly of the huge beastly Georgia World Congress Center.