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?
2 comments:
weeww that must be tiring for her. 4 airports that is what I want to avoid in my trips. the most tiresome time of the trip is the long hours of waiting in the airports. geezzzz.... good thing though that baby and I will only have one stopover. It will be in South Korea and after that Cebu. yeeeyy I can't wait to go home too.
hmm what do you waiting for? hug her tight now.. she's back.. she's now back.. make up those times she wasn't here... jowk!
I would say the most tiring trip on the way back to USA. For some reason it worked that way and it’s the most miserable time of my life! The time difference that really kills me and it took me more than a week before I got over the jet lag. I felt like I was drunk and flying in the air the whole entire week after a long journey on the way back here!
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