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Wear a suit onto the plane. Take a change of clothes (collered shirt and comfortable shorts, change of socks and underwear and a hand towel with decent slippers and a fold up hanger) with you and change once you're airborne. This way, if your luggage has problems, you will have your suit. About 1.5 hours beofre you land, take a razor, soap and the hand towel and give yourself a sink bath and shave, then change back into your suit.

At customs you'll look and smell good and you'll have no problems.

When switching time zones, if going East, I skip one night of sleep and then go to sleep at the nighttime of the new time zone. I find this the quickest way to get onto the new zone, if you're going to be there a while.

If you're not going to be there a while, see if you can work on _your_ time zone. Get up at noon and have meetings in the afternoon and early evening. It works for some people.

For the local scene, get Isabo to help. Or better yet her Daughter! Or both!!!