Today's topic is appropriately titled Travel.

As engineers we are challenged to creatively address problems from as many different points of view as possible. The world we live in seems large and people who live in other parts of it seem, well.. foreign. Yet in the time it takes us to sleep a normal night, we can fly 1/2 way around the world.

Those people who seem so incredibly different and scary when we only see them on tv or imagine how they might act, seem much more similar to us when we can interact with them face to face.

To be an effective engineer we need to have an appreciation and understanding of others, especially those who are different. To gain that appreciation we need to get out and meet these people on their turf.

One of the most important gifts my parents gave me was the opportunity to travel as a young person. This opened my world and my mind to want to travel for a lifetime.
Tomorrow I head to Germany then England then Italy. I will be gone for the next 19 days. I will do my best to keep the BOTTOM Line current while traveling.

The BOTTOM Line for today is: Get out and see the world - don't stay home and live in a smaller world and have a smaller mind as a result.