Today was the beginning of the Experience and the reason I am in Korea. We have about 4500 guests coming in for the meeting. The day was pretty uneventful. We had breakfast and then got in a van to go to the facility. The convention center is called Kintex. It is about 30 minutes from [...]
Day 18 – Rehearsals.
Mar 9
Day 17 – Golf
Mar 8
When I was in Seoul in December, my host had wanted to play golf. But we could not work out the details. So he knew I was coming to Seoul in March and had arranged for us to meet and go play. Golf in the US is entirely different than golf in Korea. In the [...]
Day 16 – Seoul
Mar 7
We made it with no problems. Gathered our bags and met our driver. We pulled out, on to the parkway and headed to the airport. Inchon is about 50 miles from downtown Seoul. Even though it was March, the weather was really cold. Not as bad as Warsaw, but certainly nippy. There was not much [...]
Day 15
Mar 7
We vegged. What can I say. We got up late and I did not move one muscle in my body unless I had to do it. It finally came time to go and I reluctantly packed because it took effort. We said our goodbyes to Dinos and Maria and their two little children and road [...]
Day 14 – Cyprus
Mar 6
Our last full day in paradise was spent touring the isle of Cyprus. Michalis picked us up. He is the President of the MDRT club on Cyprus and the head organizer of the day. Michalis was in the special forces and only came into the business in 2000. He has qualified for MDRT 5 times [...]
Day 13
Mar 5
Today is the Big Cyprus MDRT Day. Fortunately, I didn’t have to speak until later in the afternoon so I was able to relax a little. However, you have to understand what relax means. It means I got to sit in the front row of the meeting and look interested and attentive to every speaker. [...]
Day 12
Mar 4
We met up at 9AM and Dinos drove us to Nicosia from Limmesol. The airport is in Larnaca and our hotel is down the coast about 30 miles. We had to backtrack some to Larnaca and the headed inland to Nicosia.
The total trip was about 60 miles. The topography is much like Southern Cal, so [...]
Day 11
Mar 3
Matteo and I agreed to meet downstairs after breakfast. The meeting was to start at 9AM downstairs in the lower level of the hotel. I knew immediately, this was never going to happen on time and I was right.
Day 10
Mar 2
Today we visited insurance companies.
I got a brief break which meant I only was involved in a 12 hour day instead of 18 hours. We started at 11AM. Dinner concluded around 11PM. They wanted to get to bed early.
Day 9
Mar 1
Day 9 – Started with a tour of Parthenon. It is only few blocks from the hotel. Although, traveling in Athens by car is fascinating. A lot of one way streets. They are narrow and the cars double park because there seems to be no parking lots. The there seem to be more cars than [...]