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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Morbihan, France
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We are also forgetting that climate has something to do with this as well. I have arrived on the West Coast from a dismal chilly English summer into bright clear weather in LAX if there is a Santa Ana blowing. I have arrived on flights and gone to the hotel and lazed by the pool. More often I have arrived to find that brown haze over the whole of the city - I learned when working how close out we were when we crossed the mountains and you could smell the difference.
Ultimately, if I was going on to HNL - I tried to do so the same day and get rid of all the jetlag at once - I never had much problem on the outbound; it was the inbound that gave me far more problems. One thing I do advise - never ever touch Ambien (Stilnox in the UK) as I have seen Flight Attendants from United doing on one very sad occasion. Better no sleep than sleeping and never waking up.