So it dawns on me this morning at dawn. We are flying west. We are crossing international date line. The entire two leg flight from LA to Hong Kong to Singapore is 19 hours. Singapore is 13 hours ahead of LA. How on earth are we supposed to avoid jet lag.
Technically we arrive at 11:30PM in Singapore on Saturday night. That’s 8:30AM Saturday morning for those of you here in the Pacific West. So I’m supposed to land on a plane and go to bed when my body is going to think it’s 8:30AM?
This is gonna be tricky.
But I have a plan.
As it stands right now…I plan to wake up at 5AM tomorrow (friday) morning- California time. That is 8PM Singapore time. I’ll play xbox…read, write blogs, something…for 5 hours until we head to airport. We leave at 1PM California - 4AM Singapore time. I should be groggy from waking up so early in the morning - so I will sleep on plane for a few hours. I’ll set my 
watch to Singapore time and by then I should be waking up on the plane at the same time folks in Singapore will be waking up. (8-9AM or so Singapore time - 11PM California time) Then I’ll stay awake rest of the flight into Hong Kong and then to Singapore where I should be good and ready to sleep when I land at 11:30PM Singapore time. After we land, we’re sleeping 6 hours at the “airport hotel” in Singapore before heading out on foot at 7AM to the underground where we begin our trip!
I hope all that makes sense. Going east to Europe is easy as most of your flights arrive during day and to fight jet lag, you just need to force yourself to stay awake until normal bed time wherever you are - but this trip is dealing with leaving on Friday morning and landing at Midnight Sunday morning!! Just doesn’t seem right, does it? Is there even a Saturday that I can account for?
- Will post more tonight…