cts | Volt a Day | Out of Here September 27, 2010

By the time you are able to read this, I will be on a jet winging my way to Detroit. I was invited by General Motors, but that's all I can tell you. We'll see if that changes by the time I land or if I am going to have to give you hints for the next month or so instead.

I can tell you this: they laughed when I asked whether they were picking me up in a corporate jet. "Oh, I don't think we have any of those anymore." And they use Delta exclusively for their corporate travel, which is too bad since I think United has a business class. And they fly their invited guests coach. I looked into upgrading, but without business class it was going to be a thousand dollars and while my time (and comfort) are valuable, I haven't found a way to bill it out at $250/hr yet.

I will be spending the night at the Renaissance Center, which I have seen only in news footage and documentaries. I will certainly be the least-well-dressed of a dozen people there, since I have almost exactly the same scruffy wardrobe I did when I left college. But I will probably be the only one there who has printed business cards for the occasion, since that's the sort of thing I like to do.