On being a Road Warrior couple: "If we're not traveling on
business, we're traveling on vacation. We like to scuba dive, and
we travel to
Aruba,
Cancun, Cozumel, the
Cayman Islands, Bahamas,
Jamaica, Curaçao, the
Florida Keys,
Catalina Island. So, our
favorite thing to do is travel someplace tropical."
Richell Thomson and
Tracy Staton are
American
Way senior editors.
Stewart Cohen is a Dallas-based
photographer whose clients include Quaker Oats and NOKIA. Cohen's
work has earned him over 50 industry awards and has taken him to
over forty countries.
FANTASTIC FINALISTS
We laughed, we cried - these entries moved us. Here's a sampling
of the tips and stories that made our 2001 Road Warrior Search
finalists tops in our eyes.
Out of almost 7,000 entries in four categories, you'd expect the
top finalists to be useful, entertaining, funny, insightful, or all
of the above. They were. So good, in fact, that we had to share
with you some of the best stories, tips, and philosophical
outpourings from our 2001 Road Warrior Search finalists.
MEDITATE ON THIS
"From the time I switch off my cell phone at the gate and the time
the plane is leveling off, there is nothing much to do. That's when
I practice my take-off maneuver. I sit back, close my eyes, and
transition from a physically active mode to creative thinking mode
by achieving a state of conscious slumber. When I awake from this
state I have come up with some of my best ideas and done some of my
best work on my laptop. I have tried to find rational justification
for this seemingly 'Yeah, right' phenomenon. I can only say it
allows a highly stressed individual like me to achieve things
normally impossible in my office on the ground."
- Raj Joshi
Executive/Managerial Category Deloitte Consulting
Coto de Caza, California
WHIP IT GOOD
"When I first started traveling extensively, my children persuaded
me to buy them gifts to make up for being away so much. For my
daughter, we started a collection of dolls dressed in the
traditional garb of the country I visited. For my son I tried to
find unusual souvenirs, sometimes to my wife's displeasure - such
as when my son used the whip I brought back from Argen-tina to
chase his younger sister around the house."
- Ronald Gerson
Sales/Sales Management
Solutia Chesterfield, Missouri
THE EYES HAVE IT