September 18, 2011 in Home by admin

Arizona Process Servers Association (APSA) Conference

My Trip to Phoenix

Not long ago, Tristar decided we would attend to attend more conferences and let the rest of the Country know what so many of our California clients already know, that we have some cool stuff.  Being a California based company with an ever watchful eye on Calspro and other goings on in California.  I decided that the APSA conference in Phoenix would be a great venue for us.   The brief flight from our local airport to Phoenix takes less than Ninety Minutes, couldn’t ask for an easier trip.  In fact I’ll spend more time commuting to the calspro!  I couldn’t help but crack a smile while thinking of Doug, he elected to head to New York, for NYPPSA.  To do so he drove to LA(4 hours) and took a red eye flight across the country.  Talk about a brutal trip, better him than me!

Back to APSA, after landing Friday afternoon I visited an important client in Downtown Phoenix.  Beautiful city by the way, I had never driven by Chase Field before, I will make an effort to catch a baseball game next time I’m in town.  After visiting with my client I met my sister and her family at one of Guy Feiri’s “dinners drive ins and dives” places.  We ate at Chino Bandido, some kind of Mexican/Jamaican fusion, it was great!

After dinner I checked in to the hotel and began meeting several of the APSA board members and attendees.   It didn’t take long for me to feel comfortable and relaxed with this group.  The weren’t pretentious, they are genuinely good people.  We had a couple drinks and called it an early night after comparing the pros and cons of America’s got talent vs. Man vs. Wild.  Good times!

Saturday was convention day.   In spite of the fact that my fancy table cover didn’t arrive I was able to set up and display our process serving software and other products to a wide variety of  prospective clients.  APSA did a great job of promoting their vendors and the board members.  So Larry, Wayne, Tom, Luis, Patty, and Ron, thanks for going out of your way to make sure I felt comfortable!  I appreciate it!

After the conference I met up with an old buddy and hit up another one of Guy Fieri’s winners.  This place was a German restaurant in Glendale called “Haus Murpheys”.   I love German food and often try to find the best German food when I travel. (Thanks Yelp!).  This place was top notch and probably the best German food I have ever eaten, I highly recommend it.  Das ist gut!

Well that’s it, that’s my trip.  Great food, great people, great trip!  From a plane somewhere near the Arizona /California border,  thanks for reading  and have a winner!

by Dennis Chaples