Texas Boondoggle; July 2004

It was high time Our Hero Steve got a good deal which came in the form of a boondoggle trip to the Rational Software Development User Conference ’04, July 18 through 22, at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. Grapevine is on the northwest perimeter of the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex, where I lived for over a decade before I pressed on to Houston, then Austin, and then the DC area when Texas ran out of jobs after the big tech bubble burst a few years back. So I got to combine some professional advancement with visiting my old pals in DFW and some sightseeing to boot.