I meant to post this earlier, but starting today I am on a pretty lengthy tour of the USA. First stop is San Francisco, but only for this weekend. On Monday I will move to San Jose to join up the MySQL User Conference for 3 days. Then its back to San Francisco until May 1st to chat with the fine folks at the local Optaros office. At this point I will fly to Austin, location of yet another Optaros office. Then on the evening of May 4th I will fly to Tampa to spend a few quality days at my parents house in Palmetto. On May 14th its time to visit the main Optaros HQ in Boston. But after only 2 days I am already flying to Chicago to php|tek. On May 18th I am flying back to Zurich. However immediately on arrival on the 19th I am hoping back in a plane to Berlin to celebrate the wedding of a good friend. So its not until the evening of the 20th that I will really be back in Zurich.

If anyone wants to connect at any of the locations I am stopping over please let me know via email. Its quite exciting to visit so many places I have never been to. As a matter of fact the only places I have been before is my parents house in Florida. Guess with so many stops in so little time, I cannot make fun of Americans anymore that travel across all of Europe in 2 weeks.

Hi Lukas !

If you have time for fun make sure you visit the Alcatraz prison. A tour in the SF Bay is also a good idea, there is a boat (Red White Fleet) in pier 33 (?) that crosses the Golden Gate bridge.

The stanford university, the intel museum and the computer history museum are good places to visit in the silicon valley.

Best wishes