[Laneco]

When you are tired, sleep... If you arrive exhausted and drive a car half awake, you are pretty likely to be in an accident (tired, distracted looking for locations, strange place, etc). If you need a short nap in the afternoon, absolutely take it. But keep it short 15 or 20 minutes.

Going east is easy for me, going west is harder. I naturally tend to wake up very early, so resetting to eastern times is a piece of cake. I get tripped up going west... I really have no luck trying to go to bed late, simply can't stay up that long. I do try to sleep in to adjust to the later time zone. Most important thing for me seems to be when I eat. If I can adjust meal time to local meal time, my sleep time, etc., seems to fall into place quicker.

Also, I have become increasingly sensitive of blue light in my hotel room at night. I can't adjust my sleep at all if an alarm clock is casting off blue light... I cover or block everything that makes blue light. I've always been a little sensitive about this, but it is much worse now that I'm older. Not sure if its me that is more sensitive or if there is just alot more blue light "pollution" than there used to be.

angela