Posts under ‘Vacation’

Afternoon at the museum

This afternoon we drove downtown but went in the opposite direction from yesterday (I would give you the compass direction, but I really have no idea in this town). We parked and walked to a large building that contained dozens of shops the size of small shipping containers. The shops were laid out in a [...]

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Saturday night tacos

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 [...]

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Downtown Chihuahua

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 [...]

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HBC Mexico

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 [...]

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Mexican food heaven

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 [...]

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Hola, Mexico!

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 [...]

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SDC Weekend

This time last weekend Ryan, Chelsea, and I were just falling asleep in our hotel room in Branson, dreaming of the next day’s fun at Silver Dollar City. We went to the church of Christ weekend they have each year and heard a capella singing groups and went to worship on Sunday at the big [...]

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