This is the last day of our conference. This is by far the fanciest hotel I've ever stayed in. We even have a computer terminal with high-speed Internet in our room. I haven't had much time tho - we've been in seminar sessions from 8am to 8pm. I just love going to school, and this is a great way to do it. 4 days of seminars given by extremely bright folks talking about the world economy. The economies to watch these days are the 'BRIC' emerging countries. That's Brazil, Russia, India and China. Mom and I visited China in 97 and we traveled some of their beautiful new highways in a big bus. Just one fact we learned this week is fascinating. In 1974, China had 50 miles of expressway. Today they have 28,000! No wonder they are fast becoming the world's biggest consumer of cars. I wonder how long before they start buying RVs!

My favorite seminar so far was on Wireless. A lot of the conversation was about cellular wireless, but there was plenty of information on 'Wireless Broadband' as well. That means WiFi, WiMAX and 3G. I really liked the speaker - Nikhil Hutheesing from Forbes - and plan to follow his newsletter. Did you know that Korea is the world leader in WiFi? In Korea, 70% of households have broadband Internet as opposed to 30% in the US. And, 'broadband' to them is up to 100Mbps whereas the top US broadband speed is 3Mbps!

On to more seminars.