[Magdalen] Today's Google Doodle?

[Roger Stokes]

On 05/05/2015 05:57, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
> In a message dated 5/5/2015 12:30:25 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> lesleymdv at gmail.com writes:
>
> It is,  after all, already Tuesday afternoon here.  >>>>>
>   
> I recall my only really long distance travel to Japan.  The  flight
> from Dulles in Washington, DC (All Nippon) took 14 hours.   There'
> were something like five meals served and five movies shown.
>   
>   When
> we exited the plane (a 747) at Narita (Tokyo) we were so  disoriented we
> hardly functioned.  Luckily, the Kintetsu people who also own  the
> airline and the hotels, picked us up, and delivered us to the hotel  for
> a little sleep.  Upon awakening from maybe five hours sleep, we  were
> good to go.
>   
> I think the presence of CNN in the hotel rooms helped prevent the
> sense of further disorientation.
>   
> I don't know how people endure those 24 hour trips that at least used
> to be common to, say, India.

A few years ago my brother had parked his car at my house before using 
public transport to Heathrow and thence to Argentina.  When he came to 
pick the car up after travelling for 24 hours he was practically all 
in.  His daughter, who is based in Buenos Aires, had a work trip to 
Grenada in the Caribbean.  Apparently that took 26 hours.

Such trips are not for me.  Nearly 10 hours to Houston was quite enough.

Roger