Forever Nomad: The Ultimate Guide to World Travel, From a Weekend to a Lifetime (Life Nomadic Book 2)

by Tynan

For example, next month I will fly from Beijing to Las Vegas. My flight leaves at 2:45p local time in China and arrives at 12:10p local time in Las Vegas. Ideally I would sleep as soon as I got on the flight and wake up a few hours before I land. Of course, it’s not easy to go to sleep at 2:45p. So what I’ll do is make sure I don’t sleep very much the night before, maybe just four hours. I’ll stay up late and/or set an early alarm. What this does is compress the time when I’m not at my best into just a portion of the travel day, rather than force me to suffer through it for a week after I return to Vegas. As long as I sleep only four hours the night before, it’s almost impossible for me to get jet lag. Maybe I’ll sleep early in the flight and sleep for most of it. Maybe I’ll stay up for a few hours, nap on and off for a few more, and then be up for a couple hours before I land. Either way I will have slept 6-10 hours in the 24 hours preceding landing and will be fairly awake when I land. On good days I’ll feel great and fall asleep at a normal time that night. On bad days I’ll be a little sleepy all day, will go to bed early and will wake up maybe a bit early the next day.