Back Up the Truck - Warehouse Receives Books & RBTL Goes to Uganda

After seven days on the road all the way from the plant in Brainerd Minnesota, both shipments of Read Between the Lines finally arrived safe and sound!!

Most of the books went to the distribution warehouse in Texas. From there, they'll go to Ingram, a major book distributor used by Borders, Barnes and Nobles and other book stores around the country. JR, the driver who delivered a few cases of Read Between the Lines to my office in Pleasanton was pretty overwhelmed by my excitement, but really sweet about it. He even asked for my autograph before he left.

So, what does this really mean? It means that orders will be filled in the next few weeks, and soon books will be available in stores, ready for their new homes.

I'm in San Diego right now with my daughter Nicole, visiting USD as one of the potential colleges of her dreams. We had a great day at USD's Fall Open House, then went out to dinner at Currant, in downtown San Diego. I'm mentioning this because we met an interesting man that's here from Uganda for a National Real Estate Conference. Vincent Agaba from Uganda was sitting alone at the table next to us, so Nicole and I started chatting it up with him.

Instantly, Vincent from Uganda, Nicole and I all hit it off for a lot of reasons. Nicole has a huge passion for an organization called Invisible Children, which helps support children in Uganda who need help. Vincent helped Nicole understand the differences between the West and the North, and how the most important thing the United States can do for the children in Northern Uganda is to help educate them any way we can.

Like myself, Vincent is in the insurance business (he works in the field of insurance, real estate and mortgages) and he also publishes a real estate magazine, which is distributed throughout Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya. Additionally, Vincent has a dream to write the first real estate book in his country.

That's when Read Between the Lines came up, and after some more conversation between the three of us, he asked if he could purchase a book.

Let's just say that one of the first copies of RBTL has a new home, soon to be all the way in Africa.

As I'm writing this, Vincent is learning to Read Between the Lines, and how to text American style.

WOO HOO Vincent - and thanks for taking RBTL home with you to Africa!

Thanks Vincent Agaba from Uganda for educating us about your country, and allowing RBTL to educate you... and thanks JR, for delivering my first book into the right hands in Texas and in California.

You guys both rock!