Back to College Station and on to New Orleans

Yesterday I drove back to Bryan/College Station in the late afternoon since today, Monday, I am driving to New Orleans with my boss for another conference. We are leaving in a few hours. I am looking forward to seeing more of this area of the country and I am doing a talk at the conference, too. Kyle is in Austin today but he flies out Wednesday for NYC to work with some colleagues and then will be at a conference in Boston next week.

Just as I was coming into BCS yesterday, there were tons of vehicles on the highway with flashing lights. It was rather disorienting and I thought something had happened at the airport since I was passing it. Eventually traffic stopped and the police cars, ambulances, and firetrucks kept driving by. There were a lot of them, but it was hard to capture with a picture. I called Kyle and he found online that two fire fighters had died Friday night at a fire in Bryan at the Knights of Columbus. Very sad.