For those of you guys in the area the 1st Hartford Code Camp is Saturday from 9 am to 5pm at New Horizons Learning Center in Bloomfield, CT. I will be there and speaking about basics in SharePoint Development. Here is the link for the Code Camp to sign up: http://ctdotnet.org/CodeCamp.aspx.
I'm pretty excited, because this is my first trip to New England. I decided to fly into Hartford around 11 am on Thursday and rent a car, so that I could drive all the way up to Bar Harbor, Maine and back down again on Friday. It will be jam packed with awesome. I am staying at a B&B in the area called Anne's White Columns, because I wanted the full experience. I am not planning anything, except for where I am staying. I will stop along the way at anything that looks really cool. So far from what I have looked at via Frommer's there is a lot of awesome on the way up. On Friday on my descent from Maine I will be stopping in Nashua, NH to visit some old World of Warcraft buddies. Then on Saturday the code camp will take up most of my time. If I am still up for it I am either going to drive into Boston or Providence after I check into the hotel by BDL. That should pretty much conclude my stay. I am hoping to take a ton of pictures and get a ton of great experiences.
In planning this trip I made a pact with myself. Next summer I am going to fly into England and travel Europe. I am going to take the train all over western and northern with only a Frommer's Guide. I have been thinking about doing this for several years. I figure next summer is perfect, because my boyfriend should be graduating around May. I keep reading Joel Oleson's Blog about his travels and it just makes me sad. I have been to Israel. It was a beautiful trip, but I really don't count it. There is a program called Birthright Israel for Jewish people between the ages of 18 and 26. It was the most incredible experience in my life. I saw the Kotel (Western Wall), Tzipori (a really cool town where they make homemade candles that has a rich story related to the Kabbalah), almost fell off of Masadah, and I hiked this really cool area with Red Rocks. I have a good passport until November 2010. Hopefully, from next year on I can try and hit a new country every year or more if my plan goes well. Anyway, I promise to post pictures from my trip and the code camp. My camera is ready for action. Expect another post sometime early next week.