Remember that guy who “flew to Athens for 8 hours, where he toured the Parthenon… then hopped on a flight to Egypt, saw the pyramids, rode a camel and visited the Grand Egyptian Museum, all before returning to San Francisco in time for Sunday dinner.”
I thought there needed to be some decent proportion between the time on planes and the time used to good effect at the destination.
But check out this guy, flying all the way from NYC to Tokyo and back with just a single day in Tokyo. No hotel, no packing, just dropping in, hitting a few sights and eateries, and getting the hell back out. He landed in Tokyo in the morning and flew back out that same night:
@kevindroniak Yes, Tokyo, Japan is a day trip from NYC ✈️🇯🇵
He’s got 20 posts about day trips like that.
I would be too worried about catching the flight back home the same evening to be able to relax into the hours on the ground, but this guy seems awfully happy and relaxed. He claims to feel no jet lag. Must be good at sleeping on planes. I do see the value of not needing to pack or wrangle luggage or adapt to sleeping in a strange hotel. And it’s his artistic project. I get that. It’s energizing — I know from blogging and doing the sunrise — when you are inside your true belief that this is your artistic project. You may know very well that if this were your job, it would be a terrible job, but that paradox is present within so many of the very best things in life.