Tag: Jet lag
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It is always the middle of the night, somewhere
One of the funny side effects of travel is developing a distorted sense of time. The world is so large, with so many time zones and even the international date line. When you think about other far away places, it is always the middle of the night, somewhere. This is along the same line as…
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Asia is great, when not sleep deprived
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.” -William Blake I was lucky enough to experience Asia for the first time when I was just 24 years old. I was so excited to be travelling to such an exotic destination. I was living on the Eastern…
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The joy of jet lag
“I refer to jet lag as ‘jet-psychosis – there’s an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.” -Spalding Gray My kids had no idea. They played it cool. They had changed time zones, in a small way, exactly once. Vancouver to Orlando. 3 hours. They were quite young, then. And…