Good afternoon all,   Today is our last day in Madrid before heading back home tomorrow.  Tom Shymanski advised me  to enjoy myself and forget about having to go home, so I am going to "live in the moment" for the rest of the trip. But first I need to dive into the past and tell you [...]

Good morning everyone.  It's Thursday in Madrid, and we are getting ready to catch a train to Valencia.  There is a new ultra-fast train service between Valencia and Madrid that gets you there in about 90 minutes, so we thought we check out the city, have a paella in its ancestral home, and bounce back [...]

Good morning from Madrid.  It's Wednesday morning, and although we have two more full days of fun here, I am beginning to get that nagging feeling that our trip is coming to an end.  I think it was my brother Don who said that he doesn't even like to go to Hawaii because he gets [...]

Good morning from Madrid.  It's Tuesday morning at about 10:00 a.m. and I am a bit nervous.  Cath is still sound asleep (these Madrid hours are tough!) and we only have until 11:00 a.m. to get downstairs and sample the reportedly delicious Palace hotel breakfast buffet.  I have the windows open hoping to gently wake [...]

Good morning from Madrid.  It's Monday, the last day of our Ford Focus Global Drive. No events today; just breakfast and transfers to the airport for those who are leaving right away.  We will be here for a few more days so we didn't need airport service.  We have had such a great time these [...]

Good morning all.  It's just a bit before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, day 3 of our Ford Focus Global Drive trip.  Last night was the awards party up in the Skynight Lounge atop our hotel. It is a very cool Euro style room that looks like it would be entirely open in warmer weather. Here [...]

Good afternoon  from Madrid!  It's the afternoon of Day 2 of our trip.  When we last signed off from you we were about to descend to lobby to attend the big welcome dinner for all of the program participants.  I left my camera in the room so I don't have any visuals for you this [...]

Great scene at this super cool bar. #focusglobaldrive

Fantastic dinner this evening with everyone on the #focusglobaldrive Really inspiring to meet other participants! Tomorrow we drive.

Good afternoon from Madrid!   Yes, we made it. No I have not removed Gary Moorhead from the distribution list. I happen to know that he loves to suffer so I will continue to inform him and the rest of you about our "boondoggle" trip to sunny Spain.  And sunny it is.  After a long [...]