Hi,
Well, for those of you have been off for the past few weeks… welcome back.
My son and I have been on a road trip for over a week now and plan to end it this Saturday — for a total of almost 3000 miles in the USA. We will continue posting travel updates to the blog this week and if you follow me on twitter you can join in the fun.
Now.
Earlier last month, I promised something SO BIG that it could literally change the face of how people learn about Scrum and teach it to others.
I will unviel it tomorrow night, where ever I land in America on my way back to Virginia.
Too anxious to wait for the announcement you CAN sign up for one on my currently scheduled classes in North America and Europe — from next week in Detriot (woot!) to…. wait for it…. wait for it…
A VERY limited class the last week in January guess where — Richmond, Virginia. I am co-teaching this one with my great friend and past-co-worker Lyssa Adkins (she ROCKS). I promise this class will not be my “normal” class!
You can see them all at www.michaelvizdos.com/enroll.
Looks like after that I will be doing some gigs with clients in Norway and Denmark and then public classses in London and other locations.
Got an idea of a COOL place to bring me this year? Let me know and we can work it out.
2009 will bring some major changes for all of us (yes, including me!). I will start letting you know a little more about “me” (public versus the private facing guy) as well… we are all people and we can learn a lot from others.
Happy New Year and I hope you are STUNNED by the announcement in the next blog entry!
Thank you.
- mike vizdos
Hi,
Dad slept in and we got breakfast and headed out.
Our first break was pretty painful on my feet — lots of wind too.
We saw our first snow — no snowball fight yet.
We went to my Dad’s counsins resturant called El Pintos (with an awesome waterfall inside). We did not meet them though :-(.
On the way to the hotel we saw all these awesome rock formations and drove through two valleys.
Also.
We saw some weird flying objects near “Sky City”…. were there 1) UFO’s 2) Air Force Jets or 3) Meteors? Comment here on what you think!
We’ll write more tomorrow…. although it does not look like we will make it the final 750 miles in one day.
Thanks for for reading!
- mike and dominic
Hi all,
We missed yesterday blogging because I was dog sick and had to pick up some Nyquil to sleep. It was a rough day driving all Sunday with blech coming out of everywhere.
And.
We learned that the Mino “delete” button can be hit by accident so all videos can be deleted. I found a lock that will prevent that in the future, but right now we lost 2 days of videos.
Now… For Dominic’s take:
Yesterday we started out with a lot of cool videos that my dad toasted on me, so we cannot watch them. I think he learned his lesson :).
Aneeeeways… We had a lot of fun on the road as usual. Not much happened. We did 500 miles yesterday and we stayed at Days Inn. We are sorry about the videos. Thanks for logging on to the blog.
Now.
Today, so we can catch up….
We had a late start (around 9 instead of 
but we did get pretty far. We drove 500 miles (just under) and are almost 1/2 way there. We had a scare and almost ran out of gas, but it turned out OK.
We had a 4:00 dinner with a friend of my dads (he is 80 and his name is Jim) and I ate lots of veggies. Then I had a huge dessert of chocolate cake, gummie bears, and jello.
Around 6:30 we had chocolate ice cream from Braums (a hint from Dad’s friend Dave Minor). YummmEEE.
We are now at Super 8 motel and I LOVVVVVVVVVVE my pink sheets (I DO NOT DADDY — TAKE THAT OUT!).
I am going to stay up late tonight and watch whatever I want. My job is to get dad out of bed early tomorrow morning.
Keep following our adventure on twitter (http://www.twitter.com/mvizdos).
Call or DM us anytime during the day to chat.
We are headed west on i-40 tomorrow so if we can meet — PLEASE contact us!
- mike and dominic
We made it out for the first 3/4 day of travel (well actually 1/2 if best).
Dominic and I have over 5,000 miles to travel in the next few weeks, and we will be using Scrum to do the trip together. Each night I will summarize what Dominic has to say and maybe point to so pictures or other artwork.
Trust me.
This will be a learning experience in Scrum for all of us. Comments are welcome. So is any hospitality along the way the show my son the big USA :).
The title of this posting is from Dominic. And here is his synopsis of today:
So. Today has been a pretty weird day. Wait, I am getting ahead of myself.
It really all started this morning when I was so excited to go I was screaming. Once we got on the road, we had to turn right around to get my dad’s mail so we can do it while we are on the road.
Oh yeah, my name is Dominc :).
Skip to exciting parts.
We got on the road, had lunch at subway, and took breaks at rest stops. There are some videos we may be posting later that are connected to this. It’ll be up later this week with the stories connected.
More rest stops looking for Pokemon. I’ll tell you more about that later, because you may think I am crazy.
We drove more and more and saw a beautiful sunset, which we tried to video tape. It was color of blood stained red. And a little later it turned goldish orange.
We wound up at a hotel in Chucky, Tennessee. We had pizza for dinner and played our new electronic battleship with a can of Sprite. We hit the vending machine at picked up some starburst.
It’ll be a while til I fall asleep. So I hope you enjoyed reading about the first 1/2 day of our road trip!
You can follow-along with us on twitter using the link on the sidebar of this page or feel free to call us at 619-609-1716 if you’d like to try to connect with us along the trip so we can meet!
Thank you.
And.
This relates to Scrum.
How?
Comments welcome!
- mike and dominic
Hi all,
Well. It looks like my eight year old son and myself are headed on a roadtrip to end all roadtrips (at least for this year). We need to head out to San Diego from Richmond, Virginia, in order to do some work on a rental house we own. He is going to help me paint the exterior backyard, and he is totally excited about a major trip like this.
Let me know if you’d like to join us for either eventual party doing this or as we make stops along the way!
So.
This next few weeks will intertwine Scrum and our road trip that may wind up covering just about 5000ish miles.
While many of you may question “What does this have to do with Scrum?”
Hmm.
Remember.
It is all about the people.
And.
I have found that talking about Scrum though stories about my real life is something my audience enjoys.
So.
Sit back after the holiday and learn some thing about Scrum, Mike & Dominic Vizdos, and life in general.
It will be a trip to remember.
I promise to only post one entry per day — if you want to follow-me on twitter or facebook, sign up in the right hand sidebar on this page.
Tony (the artist) and I are getting together some incredible cartoons for next year.
Next stop.
2009.
We’ll continue this trip into 2009 and at the end, have a retrospective of all retrospectives.
And.
We’ll see what happens after that.
Life Changes.
Always.
It hurts sometimes.
We move on.
It’s time for me to do that.
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