Agreed. I used to do 100k a year for a few years. Even flying platinum loses its appeal after awhile.
Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 6:20 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Heck, I don’t want to travel anywhere that I can’t sleep in my own bed at > night. > > -D > > > On Sep 25, 2020, at 5:43 PM, Dwight Giles <dwight.gi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Yes i experienced that time warp working in Hong Kong & Taiwan. At this > point in my life i don't want to travel anywhere where i can't get there by > 300CD > > > > Dwight Giles Jr. > > Wickford RI > > > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020, 4:52 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > > I traveled to Asia a number of times each year. It was a total mind f*ck > whenever I went because of the “loss” of a day going over. Worse than that, > trying to interact with people back in the States was even worse, like “OK, > it’s 12 noon here so it’s midnight last night at home.” That leaves a > fairly small window of time to call home and not be disruptive, like at > breakfast (yesterday’s dinner time) or dinner (same day’s breakfast time). > > > > However, coming back was even worse. If I came back from say Singapore, > I would leave at 8:00 am local time and arrive back in Chicago 19 hours > later at 2:00 PM the same day in the afternoon. > > > > Talk about messing up your mind. It certainly did. > > > > -D > > > > > On Sep 25, 2020, at 4:38 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com>> wrote: > > > > > > I went to Tokyo once and it was weird being a whole nuther day, it was > the first day of spring when I was there so I don't know what time > distortion it was, but it was 14hr ahead in Tokyo from Boston > > > > > > --FT > > > > > > On 9/25/20 4:29 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > > >> I've got a class for students in Japan next week. I've already been > running classes online so thats not the weird part.The weird part is > figuring out when I'm supposed to teach the dang thing. They scheduled the > class for 9am JST on the 29th which is 8pm here. Then in the instructor > schedule has me teaching on the 29th. > > >> It finally occured to me that 9am JST on the 29th is 8pm here on the > 28th... > > >> I didn't want to do this class because they'd already booked me for > another class on the 29th, turns out they had already booked me for another > class (earlier in the day) on the 28th too... > > >> Its a 4 day class, Monday through Thursday, if you thought "He > probably isn't going to work on Friday" you'd be right! > > >> -Curt > > >> _______________________________________ > > >> http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> > > >> > > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ < > http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > >> > > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com < > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > > >> > > > -- > > > --FT > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > > http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> > > > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ < > http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com < > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com <http://www.okiebenz.com/> > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ < > http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com < > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
