Roadside MBA Trip #7 is now complete. Let's bust out some adjectives to see if we can give you a taste of the fun. Adjective #1: Exhausting. Oh sure, it sounds glamorous. A bunch of economists, lots of open road, a TV crew, a massive and hard-to-drive RV... what else could you possibly need? Well, the missing ingredient was, unfortunately, sleep. On this trip, eight hours was pretty much an impossibility, and it got even worse our last night. We rolled in around 10:30 pm and had stupidly scheduled a 6 am start to our day of horsing around. If I had wanted get up that early, I'd … [Read more...]
Heat, Horses, and Hoover
Sorry, but an almost-non-stop schedule and limited internet access set our live blogging schedule behind. We arrived at the Stagecoach Trails Guest Ranch late Thursday night with mild concussions from the 15-mile dirt road approach. This was about the only time we regretted having the RV, which varied from hydroplaning on the loose dirt to bumping up and down on the washboard contours of the more hard-packed sections of the road. Why did we visit a ranch, you ask? Well, Scott set it up and we are a bit suspicious that he was just looking for an excuse to wear his cowboy boots. Whatever … [Read more...]
An Economist Learns to Weld
Today the Roadside MBA crew was in Adelanto, California (slogan: The City of Unlimited Possibilities) visiting with Bill and Linda Scott at Scott Turbon Mixer. We rolled into the area late last night, with just enough time to grab a quick dinner at Paulina's Mexican Grill (excellent, btw). Walking back to our hotel, we spotted a mini-golf/go-kart/batting-cage spot, and... sadly were simply too tired to partake after our big dairy day on Wednesday. The sacrifices we make for Roadside MBA. We woke to crystal clear skies and rolled on out to the edge of town to see Bill Scott. And when … [Read more...]
Got Milk? Yes, and in Glass Bottles
We spent today with the owners of the Rosa Brothers Milk Company at their processing facility in Tulare and on their dairy farm in Hanford. Noel, the younger brother, runs the processing facility where they bottle milk, make ice cream, and sell their various products. It was both fascinating and fun. First of all, we got to wear these really cool outfits: We also got to taste their offerings. Paul particularly recommends the Root Beer milk and the Cookies & Cream Ice Cream. This is Noel serving up some Strawberry milk: We then headed over to the 1,000 cow dairy farm where we met … [Read more...]
Three Economists in an RV
After a long day of travel, the Roadside MBA team pulled into Tulare, CA late last evening. The plan had been for Mike and Scott to fly to SFO on the first flights of the day and head down to Palo Alto so we could get started around noon. Unfortunately, Mike awoke at 4:30am in Chicago with to a voicemail message from American Airlines. His flight to San Francisco had been cancelled, but the airline had “protected” him on an alternative – a 10 o’clock flight to Palm Springs, connecting to Phoenix, continuing onto San Francisco arriving at 6:30pm. Awesome! Fortunately, a reroute to San Jose … [Read more...]
Road Trip #7 Begins May 13
The Roadside MBA Team is pleased to announce that Road Trip #7 will go from Palo Alto, CA to Las Vegas, NV, leaving May 13 and arriving May 16! And you can join up, virtually. We'll be live blogging, tweeting, instagramming, and, well, what other apps do we have on our phones? We'll also be answering questions and/or taking dares from twitter users. Simply tweet your question/dare with hashtag #roadsidemba and if we answer-it/take-it, we will enter you in a drawing to win a free copy of our book. This trip will be a bit different from our activities to date. Stanford GSB is … [Read more...]
Vegas, Baby
Oh my gosh. Road Trip #7 is coming.... Details soon! … [Read more...]