Saturday, October 18, 2008
Home & Sleeping
I'm home now. I have more to post about Finland, but I don't have the pictures handy.
Yesterday I flew home. In Pacific Time Zone terms, I woke up at 6:45pm on Thursday night. I quickly got ready and took a cab to the Helsinki airport. From there, flew to London. From London, flew to LAX. From LAX, took an airport shuttle home. Arrived home at around 5:30pm on Friday night.
Since the airplane was in daylight the entire time and I started after a night's sleep, I did not sleep at all on either flight. I managed to stay awake until around 8:30pm or so when I got home. I woke up at 4:00am this morning, tried to sleep until 5:00am and then got up.
I guess my "Travel Savant" record is not going so well today. I did fine on the trip out there adjusting, but it doesn't seem like today will go as well. Hopefully I can stay awake later tonight (10pm?) and get back on track with my home time zone.
On the plus side, it's great to be home again! This is only my second trip that was 2 weeks long in four years, so I guess that is not bad. However, I really prefer to not be gone long enough to need to do laundry!
Yesterday I flew home. In Pacific Time Zone terms, I woke up at 6:45pm on Thursday night. I quickly got ready and took a cab to the Helsinki airport. From there, flew to London. From London, flew to LAX. From LAX, took an airport shuttle home. Arrived home at around 5:30pm on Friday night.
Since the airplane was in daylight the entire time and I started after a night's sleep, I did not sleep at all on either flight. I managed to stay awake until around 8:30pm or so when I got home. I woke up at 4:00am this morning, tried to sleep until 5:00am and then got up.
I guess my "Travel Savant" record is not going so well today. I did fine on the trip out there adjusting, but it doesn't seem like today will go as well. Hopefully I can stay awake later tonight (10pm?) and get back on track with my home time zone.
On the plus side, it's great to be home again! This is only my second trip that was 2 weeks long in four years, so I guess that is not bad. However, I really prefer to not be gone long enough to need to do laundry!
# posted by - Rob @ 6:06 AM 
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Yeah - it's weird having to do laundry if you're not staying in a house. Did they have a service for you where you stayed?
When Rick & I did the trip to Europe after I graduated, we had all levels of laundry-washing experience from having a washer available, to a laundry delivery service (they didn't dry jeans tho), to washing underwear in a sink (not so good).
If I ever do that again, I'd be tempted to wear & bring my oldest underwear, and then just toss it after use & buy new stuff.
Glad you're home safe & good luck with the jet lag.
When Rick & I did the trip to Europe after I graduated, we had all levels of laundry-washing experience from having a washer available, to a laundry delivery service (they didn't dry jeans tho), to washing underwear in a sink (not so good).
If I ever do that again, I'd be tempted to wear & bring my oldest underwear, and then just toss it after use & buy new stuff.
Glad you're home safe & good luck with the jet lag.
You need a water tight suitcase. You just fill it with clothes, soap, and water---the baggage handlers will even shake it for you. When you switch planes you replace the soapy water with clean water. All you have to do when you get home is throw them in the dryer. Another bonus is the added weight gives you much needed exercise after sitting for so long.
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