Austin Flex Time!

My favorite activity out of the Austin trip was the SXSW Create event. It showcased how “Tomorrow happens here” as Sean Branagan would put it. There were a lot of hands on activities, allowing people to understand their mission or what they do first hand. I got to see 3D printers, virtual reality devices, and […]

Austin- Weird, Since always!

We finally made our way to Austin, Texas after spending five days in the mountainous and rocky Boulder, Colorado.  As expected, it was a lot warmer in Austin and it felt good to know that we could finally wear shorts after some months of really cold weather in Michigan.  Austin had a different feel to […]

Southby…southwest: blending in in Austin

Austin was full of surprises almost immediately. Staying a little outside of the city gave me a different perspective than was received in Boulder, and despite feeling like the days were a little more packed with meetings (in part due to the commute, I’m sure), we still managed quite a lot of time to mingle, […]

Will we ever get home?

Complete chaos is the only way to describe our adventure at the Austin airport on the day we left Texas for Kalamazoo.  From an early morning to racing down the airport to catch the plane. It was all very thrilling and entertaining. Through all of the chaos we all still managed to have a good […]

Keep it Austin

After spending the first part of the trip in the picturesque town of Boulder, with the solemn view of the mountains and the quasi-romantic walks through its idyllic streets, it was kind of a culture shock to when I got to wake up in the busy city of Austin, with its unrelenting traffic and the […]