{"id":6061,"date":"2011-06-28T09:03:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=6061"},"modified":"2011-06-28T09:03:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:03:02","slug":"travel-talesjet-lagged-what-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2011\/06\/28\/travel-talesjet-lagged-what-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel Tales\/Jet-lagged? & What is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Travel Tales\/Jet-lagged?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After over-nighting in Oslo I flew to Newark on Monday. With my times zones up-side down and my body confused by a week of 24-hour sunlit days I slept the first three hours. I plugged my computer in and got lots done during the last five hours of the trip. I grabbed a baggage trolley while waiting to claim my two checked bags, make my way through customs, and re-check my luggage. (Thanks a stack to Robert O’Toole to turning me on to Global Entry<\/a>; you can breeze through customs in less than a minute at one of the 20 participating airports. <\/p>\n

After 20 minutes or so I realized that I was no longer in possession of my ThinkTank Airport SecurityTM V2.0 rolling bag<\/a>. The one with about $25,000+ of photo gear in it….. It was then that I remembered that I had chosen to roll the bag rather than put it on the carrier. I went back the spot where I had been waiting and saw only a large group of SAS flight attendants waiting for their bags. Each with their own black roll-aboard. I checked the men’s room; not there either. I went back to the first spot and there, right in the middle of the flight attendants, was my bag. Whew. Great to have Elaine still watching over and taking care of me after 16+ years. <\/p>\n

Switching terminals in Newark I was hassled by the TSA guy who checks your boarding pass and ID. “You have three carry-ons, your rolling bag, your computer bag, and your vest.” I countered with my usual “The vest is no heavier than a winter coat” line but he was having none of it. So I decided to play the diabetes card. I opened the flap on one of the large pockets of my Xtrahand vest<\/a> and showed him the blue Frio cold-pack with my with my insulin in it and said, “I need the vest to carry all of my diabetic supplies.” “Oh, no problem,” he said. <\/p>\n

That was only the third time I have been hassled in more than 100 flights over the past decade. I have always been able to talk my way onto the plane. The vest offers protection if you are ever busted for the weight of your roll-aboard; you can store lots of heavy items in the vest…. (Click here<\/a> for basic info on the vest or here <\/a>to see the latest feature I did on my Big Lens Magnum Vest: “Watch My Back.” <\/p>\n

We landed in Orlando on time at 6:15pm. I stopped to send a stack of important e-mail (after getting on line with my Droid) and then headed to baggage claim. Halfway to the shuttle train I reached into my pocket to check that my phone was there. It was not. I raced back to the gate hoping that the phone would be on the armrest of the seat where I had placed it (all the while cautioning myself not to forget to take it….) It was there. Elaine again. <\/p>\n

Grabbed my bags and a cab to my car at the Courtyard Marriott, made Publix by 8:15, and was home by 9:00pm. Inject at 9:05, eat at 9:35, and in bed by 11. I slept soundly for eight hours and am up and getting lots done. Jet-lagged? Yesterday for sure with all of my brain lapses but feeling great right now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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What is It?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

What is it? What focal length was used to create the image? Answer in 36 hours. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Travel Tales\/Jet-lagged? <\/p>\n

After over-nighting in Oslo I flew to Newark on Monday. With my times zones up-side down and my body confused by a week of 24-hour sunlit days I slept the first three hours. I plugged my computer in and got lots done during the last five hours of the trip. I grabbed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-90","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}