That is Michael Glutting. He is the Director of Sales for Javad and if you don't know him; he is the nicest guy in the entire world. (Really, no kidding and I can prove it.)
I think that many of the new Javad users have gotten to meet Michael over the phone.
Beer for Brunch, Beer for Lunch (pictures on the InterGEO thread later today), Beer for Dinner, Beer after Dinner. You can purchase good beer (actually great beer) from vending machines (next to the cigarette machines.) Coming from Salt Lake City Utah to Germany and comparing beer is just like going from Salt Lake City to Fort Lauderdale and comparing women in bikinis. There are few in SLC and many at the destination. A real shock. My take on German beer is the same as BBQ in Houston. There are so many good beers that a bad beer can't survive. They are all great. So far they have all been ice cold. In fact, I just had a can of beer that had the bottom 1/2" frozen. The Germans have a special machine that makes it happen.
The cost of attending InterGEO turns out to be not much more than flying across the country. We had a great flight (SLC-Paris-Hamburg :: Hamburg-Amsterdam-SLC.) The big leg is only 8 hours 5 minutes. Cost reasonable, hotels can be had for much less than in Salt Lake City.
I was told today that next year's InterGEO will be 50% again bigger than this year's because it will be in Berlin. I will go for sure.
I will post all of today's pictures in a few hours. We need to go out and find some more beers.
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flyin solo, post: 394870, member: 8089 wrote: what's the event? bob wills day is in the spring, no?
Me and some friends go up there 2 or 3 times a year to do some horseback riding. The state park (Caprock Canyons State Park) is pretty nice, but there is a private ranch that allows horseback riders to roam their ranch. It's mostly red dirt canyons, and full of history. We have found indian pictograpghs, and are hoping to find more this trip. The area was known as the "Valley of Tears" back in the mid 19th century when the indians and comancheros used the area for the slave trade.
Hello Mark, great report and pictures from INTERGEO 2016 in Hamburg. I was there on wednesday (i just had 3 hours to get to hamburg by train...) and i think i saw you at the exhibition (remembered your profile picture with the mustache 🙂 ). Did you also stay until 6 p.m when the Leica and Trimble Party starts with free beer? That Partyå«s are just on wednesdays at the intergeo. At Leica there was unlimited amount of a famous hamburg beer called "astra" http://www.astra-beer.com/ and i think i got to much of it 🙂
I was in hamburg for the first time and visited a lot of sights, especially in the habour with a harbour tour by ship and a visiting a the museum ship cap san diego http://www.capsandiego.com/history.html .
I also visited INTERGEO 2014 in Berlin and 2015 in Stuttgart and my subjective impression was that there were more visitors in the last years. I think Berlin 2017 and Frankfurt in 2018 will be a lot bigger with more visitors.
So maybe see you next year in Berlin. regards from germany Michael
