Infocomm Trade Show - Las Vegas, NV - The 'excuse' for our ride to Las Vegas.

Among other things; Infocomm is the largest gathering of people involved in the audio/visual communications business in North America.  Every other year, it is held in Las Vegas, Nv in June.

My riding partner on the three rides we have made from Seattle to Las Vegas has always been Peter Galea.  One year, his wife Francis also rode her bike down with us.

Peter 'literally' grew up in the audio/visual industry as his dad was the founder and owner of Premier Audio Visual in Toronto, Canada.  He informed me that this Infocomm was the 42nd that he had attended since he was in his teens.  He also told several of us that this would be his last......we'll see....I'm kind of doubting it.

Over the years we've come to know a lot of people in this industry.  I've worked for a couple of the best companies in the business - (Da-Lite, and SMART Technologies); one of the oldest members (DL) and 'possibly' the 'most' successful of the later generations of companies (SMART) involved with Infocomm.

Peter has run the gamut as well.  After working with his dad, he moved out west to Vancouver, BC and eventually ended up at Sharp's AV as Manager of the Vancouver, BC office when I first met him in 89 or so.  He worked later as President of Califone and traveled the world for them.  For the latest years he has run Future Image Systems, Inc. a rep firm for all of Canada.  He just sold that to Andy and Ed and has opened up another company now to distribute products in Canada.

So, between us; we know a lot of people that attend this show.  Many of them we may only see once per year; while at this show.  It's always great to see old friends and get into the hummmm of excitement that surrounds Infocomm each year.

You want to connect with as many friends and associates as possible as networking is awesome AND its a great way to keep your knowledge about what's really going on.

So...next I'll get back to the road as I start to write about our ride back to Seattle (and Vancouver, BC) for Peter and I.

Sorry for my departure from telling you about our ride from Las Vegas back to Seattle/Vancouver BC; but I thought it might make sense to some of you if I explained a major component of the trip.

Next post; back on the road again!