After a month long trip to the Philippines, Annie Lou has finally made it home. As soon as we arrived she hit the pillow and she was out cold. It is an exhausting trip. The journey home consisted of four airports in three countries, over 14 time zones and one day backwards, all over a 23 hour period.
I've always believed the trip back to the USA was worse than the one going over to the Philippines. Leaving in the A.M. here, when you arrive in the A.M. the next day there you have to fast forward you clock 14 hours, so it ends up being late evening, just before midnight. So when you get out of the airport and to your destination, its easy to lay down for several hours and sleep, then get up in time for the morning in your new time zone.
But on the way back, at the end of that 23 hour journey, according to the clocks you've only been in the air for about 8 hours. She departed Manila at 6:25 A.M. and arrived 23 hours later at 2:21 P.M.- all the same calendar day.
One odd note about it as well, is when you travel to the Philippines via Japan, they are an hour ahead of the Philippines. So when you go from the USA to Japan, you land there in a time zone 15 hours ahead. But then you return and travel southeast back towards the USA and land in the Philippines which is just 14 hours ahead.
What is the most time zones you have crossed? How long did you stay? Which was worse, the trip there or the trip home? And was the place you were traveling to ahead or behind you in the time zones?
3 comments:
Hi Tony glad she is home safely. Funnily enough my worst jeg lag problem is from the USA to GB.
I don't know why but I always feel shattered for three days. Mind you thats usually from NYC and I always have a good time there!
wow traveling that long is a great experience... i just wish to have (^_^)
i would really like to have that experience of having a long travel with different time zone (^_^) its an adventure!
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