A Day of Rest, a Bit of Jetlag. At Home.
Jun. 1st, 2025 06:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerItaly Travelog #30
Back Home - Sunday, 1 Jun 2025, 6am
We returned home from our Italy trip yesterday evening. No, we didn't leave directly from the beach on Friday morning. That was merely the last blog I posted. As usual I'm backlogged a bit— though not too badly this time. I've got 3-4 more blogs from our last day and our trip home to publish, then of course the 3-4 I skipped over earlier in the week from visiting the Vatican and a few additional sites around Rome. ....Okay, so maybe it is a lot. 😔 I'm skipping ahead again now because I want to put a stake in the ground about when we're home..... Because tomorrow afternoon I leave again, on another trip. 😅
BTW, yes, I really am writing this blog at 6am. On a Sunday. I've been up since 5am. I figure it's a bit of jetlag from Italy, where 5am California is already 2pm. If waking up at 5am for the next few days is the jetlag I suffer, I'm fine with it. I've certainly had way worse before.
Part of what I hope keeps helping the jetlag from being worse was staying awake the entire time yesterday on our 13 hour flight from connecting in Barcelona. By the time we got home-home last night, at 6:45pm, it had been a 22.5 hour day for us. I unpacked, went out for dinner— it helps to switch eating to a normal schedule— and came back and took it easy for a bit before taking a shower and going to be. I was in bed shortly after 9pm, which makes waking up at 5 a bit more reasonable. But staying awake for 25 hours yesterday and then eating and sleeping on a normal-ish schedule helps shock my system into getting over jetlag.
What's on tap for today? Well, amid my no-rest-for-the-wicked situation of arriving home nearly wasted last night and having to ship out on another trip tomorrow, I'm going to rest today. It'll be a normal take-it-easy Sunday. Well, normal-ish because taking it easy usually doesn't begin with waking up at 5am. I'll putter around the house for a while, clean and put away clothes and other stuff from the trip, enjoy some comfort food meals, and ideally spend a while at the pool this afternoon. Yesterday would have been the perfect day for pool lounging, with a high of 90°. Today it's cooler (it figures 🙄) with a forecast of only 79°. It may not be warm enough to enjoy the pool. But I'll try.
Then, Monday, it's back to work, and I pack a bag for a quickie business trip!
Back Home - Sunday, 1 Jun 2025, 6am
We returned home from our Italy trip yesterday evening. No, we didn't leave directly from the beach on Friday morning. That was merely the last blog I posted. As usual I'm backlogged a bit— though not too badly this time. I've got 3-4 more blogs from our last day and our trip home to publish, then of course the 3-4 I skipped over earlier in the week from visiting the Vatican and a few additional sites around Rome. ....Okay, so maybe it is a lot. 😔 I'm skipping ahead again now because I want to put a stake in the ground about when we're home..... Because tomorrow afternoon I leave again, on another trip. 😅
BTW, yes, I really am writing this blog at 6am. On a Sunday. I've been up since 5am. I figure it's a bit of jetlag from Italy, where 5am California is already 2pm. If waking up at 5am for the next few days is the jetlag I suffer, I'm fine with it. I've certainly had way worse before.
Part of what I hope keeps helping the jetlag from being worse was staying awake the entire time yesterday on our 13 hour flight from connecting in Barcelona. By the time we got home-home last night, at 6:45pm, it had been a 22.5 hour day for us. I unpacked, went out for dinner— it helps to switch eating to a normal schedule— and came back and took it easy for a bit before taking a shower and going to be. I was in bed shortly after 9pm, which makes waking up at 5 a bit more reasonable. But staying awake for 25 hours yesterday and then eating and sleeping on a normal-ish schedule helps shock my system into getting over jetlag.
What's on tap for today? Well, amid my no-rest-for-the-wicked situation of arriving home nearly wasted last night and having to ship out on another trip tomorrow, I'm going to rest today. It'll be a normal take-it-easy Sunday. Well, normal-ish because taking it easy usually doesn't begin with waking up at 5am. I'll putter around the house for a while, clean and put away clothes and other stuff from the trip, enjoy some comfort food meals, and ideally spend a while at the pool this afternoon. Yesterday would have been the perfect day for pool lounging, with a high of 90°. Today it's cooler (it figures 🙄) with a forecast of only 79°. It may not be warm enough to enjoy the pool. But I'll try.
Then, Monday, it's back to work, and I pack a bag for a quickie business trip!
