Phoenix, May 2007

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I'm long, long, long overdue on making a post about my wonderful girlfriend, Megha. But, to be fair, I was trying to give her anonymity as long as I could; just because I like to write in public doesn't mean everyone else wants to be dragged along for the ride. So, we'll see how this goes...

Back in May 2007, the project I was working on for Orbital Sciences Corporation was primarily based at the facility in Chandler, Arizona, just south of Phoenix. During one of the weekends I was there, I flew Megha from Florida to Arizona for a visit. I'm a bit of a desert rat, so it was an interesting opportunity to show her something new to her, and something that I enjoyed. (And let's not overlook that fact that it's just nice to see her, in general.)

So, the map you see below is three things:

1. Some of the places I went with Megha -- restaurants in the Phoenix metro area; a weekend trip to the red rock region near Sedona


2. Business-type placemarks, such as where Orbital is located in Chandler


3. A few placemarks that show where I met Aaron (of protoforge.org) in Phoenix, plus old university friends in Las Vegas for Chris's bachelor party

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The original files are located on my wiki:

• The static file, which is nice if you want to view the placemarks in Google Maps: link


• The network link file, for Google Earth users (this will be updated automatically when I update the static file): link