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Usually when I'm visiting a company it's a long day (or days) of meetings followed by business dinners. I'm as much for exploring new areas as anyone but the last thing I want to do at the end of such a day is take a drive into a not-so-close city.

I used to work for someone who would drive a number of us a bit crazy because he always wanted to do team meeting dinners in the city about an hour from the office where we would meet during the day--which was actually the wrong direction from where many of us lived. (He, somewhat understandably, wasn't crazy about the dining options near the office.)