Day 10 – Goodbye Glasgow… it wasn’t that bad after all

After 10 days in Glasgow and 6 days of testing, it was time to hit the road out of the St Marie town near Glasgow,MT. Despite the scary looks, this place turned out to be a very peaceful location and with a great display of stars at night. Every day we had beautiful days with perfect temperatures but sucks that there is really nothing to do here and that out of those 10 days, we only had 3 days to explore because the rest of the days were filled with 12-10 hr days of work along with many early morning starts… and I hate morning starts… yuck…

In 10 days, definitely explored the entire Glasgow town and its many restaurants (only 3 lol) and also did a lot of home cooking and grilling which was actually fun. Staying 5 minutes from work was actually perfect to get that extra sleep in those early mornings. Got to see and get that small town feeling that you get in other towns like in Panama… everyone knows everyone and the craziest thing (which does not happen in Panama) is that we never had to lock the cars or the house. You definitely don’t see that in many places anymore.

I also enjoyed the company of my 3 roommates. We all got along very well and had a lot of fun drinking at Sam’s or at the Hangar. Our Sam’s waitress also got a blast with us, refilling our drinks and serving what I thought were her 4 favorite customers: her redheaded step child, jack & coke, crown royal and sour… yeah… I was named sour either for my selection of cranberry vodka and my tired face that day or maybe because I am sour… lol don’t know.

I also got pulled for speeding … that sucked! 37 on 25 but the cop was very nice about it and just gave me a warning. Sucks anyways!

In those 10 days, I did missed talking to her but she was not happy about being alone and I understand because I end up missing two events that we planned for months. It sucks that I didn’t get to see Jack Johnson or that I didn’t leave to Leavenworth with the others. Somehow, it was really helpful to go back to those college-like days: living in the house with all guys and have nothing to do after work (although I had classes to listen and all that). Plus, being stuck with no phone signal also forced the interaction among the people in the house and that helped me clear my mind about her not sounding like she wanted to talk to me probably because she was mad.

It wasn’t that bad after all… got some cool pics of the airplane, got to be in a very cool testing and made some good friends along the way. But it was a good time to get back. I don’t like to be in bad terms with her and I wouldn’t like to be stuck in Seattle either and with some free time… Seattle has become more of a problem lately for both of us. She keeps talking about how people is not up to make friends and now that I think about it… it is real… I haven’t make a new friend since I moved here and I don’t even talk to the ones I had here before because time has change things. I even got a txt message about Mark getting married… life definitely changes a LOT in 3 years.

Now im looking forward to Orlando and hopefully some good encounters with those good old friends that make my college days definitely awesome.

I also got to see a show on the History channel about the world’s most dangerous airports… guess which one was first… LUKLA! Now this will definitely add Nepal to the list of crazy things I done.

Its time for a change… I can feel it coming. I was feeling like loosing excitement but this trip helped me to get excited again. I help making very cool products and its awesome to be part of the testing. Hope these pics do the talk about how cool the new 747 is… and seeing the landing from the cockpit was so amazing that I was just speechless and smiling the entire time. I’ve come a long ways from those adventurous days in Santa Clara and sometimes it just hits you… this is cool.

Aqui los dejo con algunas fotos desde el sitio de prueba del nuevo avion de carga 747-8F. Estas fotos fueron tomadas desde Glasgow, Montana donde las pruebas de efectos terraneos de este nuevo avion fureron efectuadas. Las pruebas de efectos terraneos (creo que esta seria la mejor traduccion) ayudan a predecir como el avion se comporta cerca del suelo (especificamente cerca de la autopista durante el despegue o aterrizaje) y fueron conducidas en este avion especialmente por sus nuevas alas. Las pruebas consisten en pasos sobre la autopista, sin tocar la pista, a varias velocidades y haciendo que el avion se incline sobre la autopista hasta un angulo de 9 grados en diferentes configuraciones y diferentes alturas desde 25 hasta 5 pies sobre la autopista. Con los resultados de estas pruebas, nuestro grupo va a actualizar la simulacion de este avion para poder certificar nuestro simulador y poder usarlo para entrenar pilotos.