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States Visited: New Mexico New Mexico New Mexico Arizona Texas Louisiana Michigan We started our month in Corona, NM working on a wind farm. They told us in the safety orientation "We do have Life Flight. If you get bitten by a snake, neither the life flight nor the ambulances carry anti-venom. The helicopter takes 45 minutes to get here and 45 minutes to get back to the hospital in Santa Rosa. From there they'll transfer you to Albuquerque, which is another 90 minutes." So b

States Visited: Kansas Tennessee Illinois Colorado New Mexico The Cumbres Pass We headed back out to Kansas for our first class of the year, and got to visit the little sister south of Indianapolis. From Kansas, we spent a week in Tennessee and then headed up to Illinois. It was all fun and games until you have a 10,000 step/day step goal and the daytime high temp is 20°. frrryyyy breadddd We got out of Illinois just in time to make our hotel before the Snowpocalypse hit. It

States Visited: Texas New Mexico Oklahoma Kansas South Carolina North Carolina Virginia Maryland Delaware Pennsylvania New Jersey After Thanksgiving, we got back on the road for our last few classes of the year. We went back up to Taos, then over to Wichita. We had the rare experience of being in town while a show was going on, so we went to the stadium to see Nate Bargatze! That week, a buddy of mine called to have me bail him out of a bind in South Carolina so Michael dro

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices. This is a bad,

States visited: Texas Kansas Tennessee New Mexico We started our month in Austin, at the hotel where Michael and I met (💖), then we made the drive up to Andover, KS. As a South Texan girl, I'd always thrown a little shade at the Great Plains states. Pfft. Kansas? Nebraska? Who'd want to live there? Unfortunately, the more we go to Kansas the more I like it. On the other hand, we haven't been there in the winter yet, and we've never seen a tornado so my opinion has not yet so

States visited: Tennessee New Mexico Texas Arkansas Missouri Illinois Indiana Ohio Kentucky Oklahoma Kansas We started our month together in Tennessee. It was a short trip from Alabama to our class in Gainesville, but it was only at 10:00pm on Sunday night that we realized our class was ACTUALLY in Cookeville, not Gainesville. Oops! So we threw everything back in the van and got up early Monday morning to make the switch. It was only about 90 minutes away, so not a catastro

Remember when Microsoft forced us all off the elegant, versatile, and reliable Windows 7 with the promise that Windows 10 would put an end to the frustrating process of upgrading operating systems every 5-8 years? Remember when Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft "evangelist" promised that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows we'd ever have? That "Windows as a Service" meant you'd never have to change operating systems again? Remember when they assured us "All of that migrat

States visited: Washington State Texas Louisiana Alabama Feeling like a tech again We started September home in Boerne. I even got to...

<p>States Visited:Japan (!!)TennesseeAlabamaIdahoPennsylvaniaNew Jersey Well, we left Kansas and spent a week in Chalmette, LA. We were just ten minutes from Bourbon St so we braved the extreme heat and the homeless drug-addicts and went down to Jackson Square for beignets and coffee. From New Orleans, we hopped in the car, drove 8hrs up to<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/08/01/was-this-crazy/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-

<p>States Visited: IndianaIllinoisTexasNew Mexico After a week at home in New Jersey, we saddled up and headed out to Illinois. On our way through, we spent the night in Indiana with the long lost sister. We taught in Spoon River, Illinois at a school that seemed to have two programs; fiber optics and medical marijuana.<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/out-in-the-badlands-of-new-mexico/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-te

<p>Well, we finally made it to Japan! After a 14 hour flight, we got to spend almost 3 weeks in Japan, touring temples, eating sushi, and -primarily- walking up and down flights of stairs. We started with 2 days in Osaka and a day trip to Kurashiki to see the historic denim manufacturing hub, then<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/japaaaaaan/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;Japaaaaaan&#8221;</span></a></p>

<p>States Visited:TennesseeNebraskaIllinoisNew JerseyNew York Well, we flew out Nashville thinking we would drive to Little Rock the week after. Turns out our Little Rock class was canceled, so we got to drive to Lincoln, NE instead! Combine a 14 hour drive and a flight delayed by 5 hours, and it was a very long night!<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/count-down-to-vacation/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;C

<p>States visited:New MexicoArkansasFloridaMontana We started off with a week in Santa Fe and then a week in Taos. While in Santa Fe, we visited the historic Santa Fe Plaza and walked around the Hotel La Fonda, another famous Harvey Hotel. From Taos, we had our first class in Arkansas! We arrived in Little Rock just<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/west-to-east-and-back/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;West

<p>States Visited:New YorkNew JerseyAlabamaTennesseeTexasNew Mexico We started our 2025 with a class in New York City. If you had told me when I was a little country kid that one day a week in New York City would be routine, I would have been very skeptical! From New York, we drove down to train a<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/its-really-winter-now/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">&#8220;It&#8217;s really winter

<p>States Visited: FloridaLouisianaTexasNew Jersey We left for Florida after Thanksgiving, making this our fourth time in Chiefland this year. We stayed in our little cabin AirBnB again. It feels like going home at this point, except this time it was COLD! From Chiefland we headed back to Lake Charles (yes, again). From Lake Charles we<a class="more-link" href="https://thefieldtechlife.wordpress.com/2025/01/01/a-new-jersey-christmas/">Continue reading <span class="screen-read