Sydney

I got to go to the MedInfo 2023 conference in Sydney the week before last.

After all the rain we’ve had in Auckland, the sparkling blue skies were very welcome. I did get in some good walking around.

The highlight of the trip looks a lot less glamorous in pictures (since I haven’t mastered the exuberant selfie)… seeing a whole bunch of colleagues and colleagues who’ve become friends. But here’s a shot anyway… people I worked with in the Philippines and haven’t seen in person for six or seven years. It was so nice to catch up!!

And one of the conference organizers was just finishing her doctorate at U of Utah when I started there 25 years ago. She now lives in Melbourne… making the world seem small and huge at the same time.

I can’t say I miss traveling for work all the time. But it sure beats 8 hours a day on Teams calls!!