After our long day touring downtown our group got together and made dinner for each other. We ordered cookware from the front desk and prepared our version of tacos. Jeremy had brought seasoning from home and cooked it with hamburger and some potatoes. I took the fresh vegetables and recreated the onion and cilantro relish [...]
Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico, is a 300-year old city that has about 800,000 people in an area the size of Wichita. It is at 4,600 feet elevation and is in Mountain Standard time zone, so at the moment I am one hour behind Kansas. It is also an arid climate here and is unbelievably drying; I [...]
Welcome to Hawker Beechcraft Mexico! HBC Mexico opened one year ago to do sheet metal assembly. It is a small facility in the south side of the city, right next to a Kenworth plant, and down the street from Case-New Holland and Caterpillar. Ford isn’t too far away from here, either. The main activity for [...]
Mexican (American) food is my favorite food, and now I get the real thing! I do have to admit that my first meal in Mexico was not authentic food; we ate at Chili’s. Yes, Chili’s. At least they had chips and salsa. But it turns out that there are a ton of American food chains [...]
Greetings from Chihuahua, Mexico! While this is not my first choice for a Mexican destination, I am so far enjoying my time here. My company has setup a manufacturing facility in town and I will be here until next Friday (24th) working on process/productivity improvements. I’ll try to post as I go, with posts on [...]
As soon as the payment goes through at the bank this week we will have paid off Ryan’s car. No more car debt! Thanks to following Dave Ramsey’s plan, we’ve slowly worked our way out of credit card debt, my car payment, and now Ryan’s car payment. You may have noticed from the aforementioned post [...]
Many of you have already seen this, but I realized I hadn’t posted it on the blog yet. About a month ago, the reporter at the Wichita Eagle who covers the aerospace industry in Wichita came out to our warehouse and did a nice little story for us. The story was on the front page [...]