The Couscous Chronicles

While a smidgen of my FB friends get to share their photos of business trips to far flung exotic locales such as Mumbai and Moscow, I have the distinct honor of occasionally making the business pilgrimage to Hutchinson, KS, home to my client Dillon’s, a division of Cincinnati based Kroger Stores.

The good news is I left my new “toy” at home, the new Panasonic GF1 digital camera given I did not expect to see anything worthy of my carrying the extra weight of the camera on a business trip. Of course I did get my belly full with some decent BBQ and a notable Italian meal last night at a slightly upscale funky Italian restaurant in Downtown Hutch called of all things, “Jillians”. We ate BBQ in Wichita out of convenience at Hog Wild BBQ, a local chain that provided a respectable brisket, but my preference locally would have to be Roy’s “you’ll be in hog heaven” Hickory Pit BBQ in downtown Hutch as they have over 20 different BBQ sauce choices, a more local feel and of course their claim to fame of they are “one of the top 100 BBQ restaurants in America” (http://www.roysbbq.com/). I love this country.

Upon disembarkation from the plane at the “air capital of the world” Wichita airport, I told my colleague that we would be in for an adventure. While my prophesy did not necessarily come true, we thought we might get to invoke our inner storm chaser as we dodged our way through a tornado watch on our way back to the airport this morning. Other than that it was all uneventful just the way we like it, but I learned my lesson as next time I am bringing the camera just in case we do see a tornado forming above Kansas highway 96 or at the very least to take hundreds of pics of haunted grain elevators.