The six of us arrived at Washington DC's Reagan National Airport, bleary-eyed, flip-flopped and Panama-hatted, ready to set out on what we had dubbed the "Sun, Sand and Stupidity Tour 2010".

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My guide drove like a man possessed, crashing through ditches and racing across the plains, aware of the distance we had to travel and the speed of the setting sun.

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Then I began to laugh, because of what we had both said, and because of her laughter and the sun and the sky and the lake.

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The sun did not set until 2030 or 2100 hours, so we had plenty of time to train.

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The next morning we looked out of the window and thought it had snowed but it was the sun shining on the floodwater.

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So we hired Ravi Iyer who had 20 years of experience with that at Nokia (NOK) and Sun Microsystems as VP of Product Management.

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