I’ve always had a sort of romantic affinity for road trips.
- From the time I was little and my dad would whisk me out of the air conditioning for a trip to somewhere special, I’ve always enjoyed the notion of hitting the road.
And that sure came in handy during the summer of 2020. When the company I worked for shut down the offices with the zone controlled HVAC, I wasn’t quite sure how that was going to work. Much of my job is done with the customers. I’m doing the implementation work or closing deals in person so there was only so much that I could do from the air conditioning at home. The first few weeks after we were sent home from the zone controlled HVAC of the office, there were plenty of zoom meetings on that topic. I wasn’t the only one who needed to be in front of customers or onsite doing the work. So we ended taking it by regions and reassigning projects to where we were in relation to our customers. That summer, I packed some suits and other stuff for an extended road trip. Thankfully, I have great air conditioning in my car so that wasn’t a problem. And I was able to find the best air conditioning in the hotels that dot the interstates. I found that the hotels that had the big, wall unit HVAC equipment to be the most consistent when it came to awesome HVAC cooling. While I didn’t like being away from home so much that summer, I did sort of enjoy being on a once in a lifetime, extended road trip.