2007 ESRI User Conference is over. My head is filled with GIS propaganda and my feet hurt. The San Diego Convention Center is huge. They already had a perfectly good one but I guess it was too small so in 2001 they built another one next to it. The user conference uses all that space, plus some space in the adjacent Marriott, so there's really no way to avoid walking a lot. And for me, I warmed up in the morning with the walk from my hotel down to the Convention Center, which takes about 20 minutes. It wasn't bad though. The neighborhoods are interesting and I got to stop in on my way at Pierre's Place for a very good non-Starbucks americano. Luckily though all that walking is interspersed with long periods of sitting. The sessions are 75 minutes long. Imagine trying to describe how to use a piece of software in an hour.
Anyway, this part is done. I need to go through all the crap I picked up at the conference and decide if I want to carry it around for the next week, I need to make sure I've got my plane ticket and called for a taxi, etc. My flight to Monterey leaves at 11:30am and arrives in Monterey at 12:40pm. Hopefully the airport won't be too bad. The flight I'm on leaves from what they call the Commuter Terminal. I guess it's for those folks just have to work in San Francisco and sleep in La Jolla or what ever.
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