Adjusting to time zones...

So far, this whole jet lag thing hasn't been too bad for this trip. I'm a big fan of jumping right in to a time zone, whenever possible. I figure that after a long flight, your body is wacked out so much that you just have to re-train it immediately to the new time zone. (granted, that certainly doesn't always work!)

When we arrived in Spain last week, we had been traveling for almost 24 hours straight - flying from SFO to Heathrow, taking a bus to Gatwick, waiting at Gatwick for a few hours, the flight to Malaga, cab to bus station, bus ride to Granada, cab from bus station to apartment. I think we got to our apartment by 6:00pm or so. We freshened up, and took a bus into town to have dinner and explore the city a little. We probably got to bed by midnight, and I think we slept in 'til 11:00am the next day. We didn't have any issues with jet-lag on that end of the trip. Dick was a little tired on Wednesday afternoon, but he pulled through it. We usually didn't get to bed until well after midnight - such a Spanish thing to do! I'm sure that it helped that we slept in until 9:00 - 11:00am each morning whenever we could. It was nice having such a leisurely vacation.

On our way home, our flight landed at 6:00pm. Dick slept on the plane for 4-5 hours. I probably got about 2 hours in early on. We came home, had a small dinner, and got to bed by 9:00. We woke up around 6:00, and did pretty well throughout the day. We both got a little tired around 3:00, but kept on going. We fell asleep around 9:30 last night, and I got up around 5:00 this morning.

That's not too bad considering that the time difference between here and Spain is 9 hours.

Today is both of our first days back to work. Dick will be getting on the 7:15 Caltrain, and I'll be going to the gallery later on in the late morning.

We'll see how today goes!