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Back from Savannah

Posted on September 22, 2008September 24, 2008 by Ian

Update!  Pictures Here

Well, it took 2 days, but we made it back from Savannah — here’s the story of the trip.  We flew there a week ago Saturday and had a few days to aclimatize before the classes started.  I took two full day classes on Assisted GPS (using a cell phone with some some external base station support to get a position) and Differential GPS (hich, despite all my years in the biz, I have never really dug into).  After that the exhibition and paper presentations went for three days.  Most people headed home Friday night or Saturday, but we stayed on until Sunday — our ultimate downfall — I’ll explain later.

Savannah itself is a pretty cool old place.  Definately a European flavour, but very American.  A bit of a college town it seems.  We found a lot to do, and I’ll be getting some pictures up on the squid in a while.

Getting home, our plane from Savannah to Chicago was late, forcing us to miss our connecting flight, so we went on stand-by for the next and last flight from Chicago to Calgary for the day.  No luck.  The next flight they could get us on was 5:00 tonight!  So, we went to a hotel downtown and made the best of it.  Did a little sightseeing this afternoon, and here we are, back home.

Terry and Viv were going through O’Hare at the same time we were — so we kept our eyes peeled for them, but no luck.  It IS a huge airport, so the chances of actually bumping into them was very low, but I looked at everyone we passed!

1 thought on “Back from Savannah”

  1. Terry says:
    October 2, 2008 at 16:10

    Good pics….looks like you used the RiverWalk a lot, since you were staying across the River. I also love your interior pic of the Great Bean in Chicago. Cool repeating flowing scene.

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