One Time To Ride

One time to ride. Working for Polaris provides a number of benefits like riding our great products. But when you live in China - finding time and actually riding becomes a challenge. Having this said, I did have one opportunity to ride. While we were back, I had an off-site company meeting in Nisswa, MN that started on a Tuesday - so on a Monday morning a couple of colleagues of mine traveled up to the Nisswa to put on a few miles.

The weather was a bit too warm and the trails were deteriorating very fast but I still enjoyed the time on the sleds and with the guys.

3/4 of the motley crew - Dave, Me, and Al. I know it wasn't for them - but the trails were the best trails I had the opportunity to ride on all year long.

This is Brad before he had to go to the hospital to get stitches on the top of his head in the middle of his scalp. Lesson learned - watch your head when loading a sled into an enclosed trailer. But it could have happened to any of us...

Until next time:

Valentine's Day - back in China

For Valentine's Day, I flew my wife and family back to China... just kidding. Actually we arrived back on February 12th. The travels went off as expected which was good. We are getting better at the frenzy of security checks, carrying a small "circus" of miscellaneous clothing, toys, Cheerios, and "jooose". It is clearly evident that our twins are getting more and more mobile and we spend the down time in the airport riding the "moving sidewalks" that most airports have - back and forth, back and forth. It is a great way to kill time however and we welcome anything that will keep them in a relaxed mode on the airplane. They do know the word "sit" on the airplane, however a 13 hour flight does require a bit of creativity.

Anyway, we are both happy and sad to be "back at our house". I say this because "home" happens to be wherever we are as we do feel a bit transient from time to time. Thank you to all who took us in over the holidays and the month of January.

Until next time... a view from the Seoul / Incheon Int'l. Airport on our 2 hour layover at early evening. We flew Korean Airlines from Chicago -> Seoul -> Shanghai. The service & airline were great, but Sabrina didn't like the food. Korean bibimbop isn't on her favorites list.

For all you guys out there...Roses are about $13 a dozen here in Shanghai & that is even on V-Day which is about 3 times as expensive as a normal day. Yes, they do celebrate Valentine's here in China.