I’ve had a really busy last three weeks. My work project took me to India -- Mumbai, to be exact. While there I also took a flight east to Hyderabad, which is the equivalent to Silicon Valley in the United States. It was a very successful business trip and I also spent Saturday siteseeing with some girls from work. As you can see from the photos, a very different lifestyle, but as I have found almost everywhere, the people were proud of their country. The trip to and from was a 17-hour direct flight taking the northern flight pattern over Canada, across he Atlantic, through Europe then over the sea to India. When you travel internationally you have the viewing options of movies, television, music videos, etc. You would be surprised at how many movies you can watch in 17 hours. I believe I am now caught up on all the now caught up on all the romance, comedy and drama films for the last four years.

When I returned to the United States, I landed in Tampa. Our GEICO team was scheduled to begin testing on the East Coast, so I thought since I just spent so much time on a flight, that I would go directly to Florida and bypass the additional flight I would have to take to get me to Reno, then back to Tampa three days later.

In addition to traveling around the world, our team has gone through branding and color change. In less than a month we are working to completely change the whole look of our rig, bike, team shirts, and awning. Thanks to Doug’s persistent coordination, our rig has been painted, wrapped, a new awning in place and new team shirts, bikes leathers, helmets, and even merchandise have been switched over to our new GEICO Powersports brand. WOW!

The brand change had to be completed in less than three weeks to meet the deadline for the filming of the GEICO Powersports web and national commercial with Morgan Lucas and myself. Our filming did not begin until 6:00 p.m. and it went through until 6:00 a.m. This allowed me to work during the day and film (work) through the night too. It just so happened that there was a cold snap here and the temperature was in the 20s and 30s during our filming. Talk about cold. I’m the one that wears long sleeve shirts in Florida when it is 80 degrees. It was so cold in my leathers at 3:00 a.m. that my legs were shaking so bad and I could not control them for the filming. Debbie was wearing four layers of clothes and still freezing. Wouldn’t you know it, that the next few days after the shoot, the weather gradually improved and the weekend has been a beautiful 80 degrees during the day ad lows of 55 at night.

We have a lot of new things happening with our team this year and it seems to all have had to come together over the course of 80 days. I am happy to report that it has, so be sure to pay close attention in the next few weeks as the unveiling of the GEICO Powersports team occurs.