the joys of travel....

I am sloshed. I admit it... I know it's not becoming of a yogic type but it is the truth and at the very least with this blog I am vowed to self-revelation and honesty, even if it may show me in a less than favorable light.

But there is something you need to understand.
It is a strategy... in order to sleep.

I find myself in the BUSINESS CLASS lounge at San Francisco Airport about to fly to Bali for 7 weeks.. well, to 5 countries in Asia total, 17 flights all told; and facing a 15 hour flight across the Pacific for the umpteenth time, I decided to use some extra miles and splash out for a BUSINESS class flight going west. Coming home is always a breeze so I am flying economy, but west is a bitch. Takes 2 hours more and if I don't sleep, I feel TERRIBLE on arrival in Bali. So the plan is to drink pretty much a LOT of quite decent free booze both now and on the plane (IN BUSINESS CLASS) and then crash out in a drunken stupor.

There is a rumor that BUSINESS class seats actually recline to flat. OMG!! I may actually SLEEP! And I need it.
After all the excitement of the Grand Island party and my birthday etc and readying my house for the people who will sub-lease while I am gone, I am pretty much exhausted and in need of much shut-eye. ( I had to do a lot of cleaning!).

I can hardly believe it, but in this moment, all planning is done, flights are booked, and all I have to so is show up and do my trips. 3 back-to-back. This is the first time I have done 3 in a row and I figure I am doing it because I can and because I LOVE doing this... traveling with dear friends, showing them this beautiful planet of ours.

So before the fun begins I am letting my hair down and getting a little DRUNK and eating lots of naughty snacky things in the BUSINESS CLASS lounge.

See you in Hong kong....