Some of you may have been following my travels on Facebook and noticed that I am not in Germany this week.  I am continuing my professional education at the Washington Protective Relay Conference.  Every year, the great minds in the power distribution and transmission industry get together to share their knowledge with the rest of the industry, sharing best practices, lessons learned, and as always, try to sell us more of their products.  The trip here was supposed to be nice and simple involving only 3 layovers, and visiting only 4 airports: Frankfurt - Chicago - Denver - Spokane.  To finally get to Spokane, I had to travel Frankfurt - Chicago - Denver - San Francisco - Seattle and then finally Spokane.  After nearly 36 hours of travel, I finally made it.