Welcome
Welcome to the Not-That-Great Travel Blog. There are many travel blogs that show incredible places, luxury flights on premium carriers and fabulous expeditions… This isn’t that.
Are there cool destinations? Sometimes. Am I usually going to the best-known places in those destinations? Not usually. This is, instead, my experiences traveling for business. This is about late nights, odd flights, missed flights, lots of meetings, and the mechanics of how we get from a world of burning crushed up dinosaurs to electric for our energy needs. It is also my own musings, usually unedited or only lightly edited, about things I find interesting.
This is not intended to be a grand journey that you will go on with me. The places honestly aren’t that interesting unless you count a lot of trade shows. Instead, it is a bit about what it is like to be on the road as often as I am, eating chocolate in Europe (so much chocolate to eat…so little time) and in general attempting to have a normal life.
So, on that note, welcome to my not-so-great travel blog. I hope you enjoy these rambling musings.
Who am I?
This is the existential question that I used to get at the start of classes in grad school. I’m Trevor. I work for a company that makes battery systems for a variety of different applications. I do business development, which means I’m on the road a lot looking for companies that need batteries (a hint, it is a lot) that are safe, reliable and properly engineered (sadly, a lot fewer).
I live in Oregon, and my office is in San Francisco. I’m single with a graduate degree from the University of Southern California and a Bachelors of Arts from Lewis & Clark College. This means I can write about obtuse topics like I know what I’m talking about, and everyone else can just nod their heads and think I sound smart. Yep. Get used to it. This is the type of humor you are in for if you read further.
For fun, I enjoy getting outside as much as possible. I run, I bike, I used to swim more than I do now, I tri, I cross country ski in the Cascade mountains, I hike and I sometimes do other things. I’m a history, engineering and public policy nerd. I also previously danced a lot of Argentine Tango.
I believe strongly that it takes hard work to create change in the world, and that it is our responsibility to use our talents to make the world better even in a small way. I believe everyone has a place in the world, and that sometimes it takes a bit to find it.
On that note, on with more content! I’m on a roll now…