{"id":4033,"date":"2019-05-03T16:44:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T23:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=4033"},"modified":"2019-05-03T16:53:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T23:53:23","slug":"back-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/05\/03\/back-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Back in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another day, another 14-hour flight, and another week, another time zone reversal.\u00a0 I love traveling to Asia; I don’t relish the thought of taking a month to get back on US time. \u00a0 That’s what happens every time I travel to Asia.\u00a0 When I visit China, Singapore, Thailand, or any of the places I go to in Asia, I get adjusted to Asia time in one day.\u00a0 Then it takes a month when I get home to adjust to US time.\u00a0 It doesn’t matter if I’m in Asia for 2 days, 40 days, or 13 months (I’ve done all three); it always takes forever to get back on our time. \u00a0 I don’t think it has anything to do with direction; it has everything to do with what’s home.\u00a0 My Asian friends tell me they experience the same thing…when they come to America, they’re on our time in a day or two, and then it takes them weeks to get back on their home time once they’ve returned.<\/p>\n

This adventure was two weeks for Susie and me.\u00a0 It started with 4 days in Singapore, where I taught a class to folks working in the Singaporean defense industry.\u00a0 I get invited to Singapore to do that a couple of times a year; the topic this time was Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.<\/p>\n

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Singapore defense industry engineers in an FMEA course. Good times!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s a 17-hour flight from Los Angeles to Singapore. \u00a0 You’d be surprised; it goes by quickly.\u00a0 The courses are fun to do, we always do them in 5-star hotels, and Singapore is a good place to have a good time. \u00a0 I watched Crazy Rich Asians<\/em> on the way over during that 17-hour flight (it’s the first time I’d ever seen the movie).\u00a0 I was surprised at how many of the Singapore locations I recognized in the film.\u00a0 I like Singapore.<\/p>\n

Next, it was a 5-hour flight to Perth, Australia. \u00a0 You’ve read the blogs about it and the reason we went (Susie met her pen pal Adrienne for the first time).\u00a0 We had a hoot. \u00a0 Gresh and Baja John both told me Australia was a lot like the US, and they were right.\u00a0 Still, they do have a few things we don’t…<\/p>\n

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Freemantle Prison in Western Australia. \u00a0 It’s a tourist attraction today.\u00a0 Back in the day, it was where the UK sent its convicts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pouring a gold bar in the Perth Mint. The Nikon showing off its low light level abilities here, in this case at ISO 2000.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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G’day, Mate…a python in a Western Australia wildlife preserve…more low-light-level Nikon chicanery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tie me kangaroo down, Mate. At one of the restaurants in Sydney, I could have ordered a kangaroo burger, but I took a pass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kookaburra, sitting in an old gum tree. We finally met. He wasn’t laughing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The morning we left Perth, there was a big hub-bub going on outside our hotel as we got into our Uber car, and to my astonishment, the fellow getting into the car in front of us was Scott Morrison, Australia’s Prime Minister.\u00a0 He had been staying in our hotel.\u00a0 There were a few security folks around him, but nothing like you’d see in the US.\u00a0 He looked right at Sue and me from just a few feet away as he passed. \u00a0 Nope, I didn’t get a photo.\u00a0 Maybe right now he’s telling people he met one of the two guys running the ExNotes blog.\u00a0 His friends are probably telling him it didn’t happen if he didn’t get a photo.<\/p>\n

From there it was on to Sydney (a 4-hour flight), and we had another fabulous visit.\u00a0 We didn’t know anybody there yet, but we made new friends and we had a great time walking around in one of the world’s great cities. \u00a0 Sydney is a beautiful city and it should be on your list of places to visit.<\/p>\n

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An iconic Sydney photo…the Sydney Opera House.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I spotted this scooter, a new Lambretta, in downtown Sydney and I struck up a conversation with Barry, the guy you see here. This modern Lambretta is manufactured in Taiwan. Now I know two guys named Barry who ride Lambrettas.\u00a0 You see bikes and scooters in Australia at about the same frequency as you do in the US.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Our new friend Colin in Sydney’s Rocks shopping area.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And there you have it.\u00a0 It was another 14-hour flight to get from Sydney to Los Angeles and we landed at about 6:00 a.m. today.\u00a0 It’s good to be home again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another day, another 14-hour flight, and another week, another time zone reversal.\u00a0 I love traveling to Asia; I don’t relish the thought of taking a month to get back on US time. \u00a0 That’s what happens every time I travel to Asia.\u00a0 When I visit China, Singapore, Thailand, or any of the places I go … Continue reading “Back in the USA”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[235],"tags":[678],"class_list":["post-4033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","tag-australia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4033"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4048,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4033\/revisions\/4048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}