Tag: Time zones

  • It is always the middle of the night, somewhere

    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…

  • The joy of jet lag

    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…