Winners and Losers Seat Cushion—loser 🙁 Again, I think this could be useful but because I got to lie down across four seats on the flight from Tokyo to Manila I did not need it. So I guess maybe it’s not really a loser, just not a winner? Travel blanket—loser 🙁 Maybe it’s because Japan…
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for January 2010.
Manila Drivers
Manila is a very interesting city, full of contrasts. I am not going to go into an entire socio-political-geographical discussion, but instead focus on one specific contrast. Their roads look just like ours—they are mostly well maintained, with overpasses, green and white street signs, and lane stripes. There is a difference though: drivers in Manila…
Long Flight Comfort Update 1
This is the Winners and Losers version, Part 1. Kindle—Winner!! Normally for a two day trip I will bring 4 books. For a trip with 50 hours of flying I brought 8, on my Kindle. The first thing I noticed as I was picking up my purse to leave for the airport was how light…
Landed in Manila
I have arrived in Manila! It took 27 hours of time to get from my house Sunday morning to the hotel Monday night. It is 1am here and I am about to leave for the office, because the office here works at night in order to work during American day-time hours. What a crazy world!…
Long Flight Comfort
Tomorrow I leave for Manila. It takes 26 hours of travel time just to get there. So I leave Sunday morning and land (because of the time difference) on Monday night. Wow! That is a long, long time in the air. I will be honest, I have never been on a plane or in transit…
New Year’s Resolutions (and Happy New Year!)
I heard a story on the radio where the man said, “I don’t do New Year’s resolutions because I think it’s important to be happy with yourself, and what’s the point of saying you’ll do something or other and a few months later falling into your old habits? It’s demoralizing.” I can see his point….to…