As many of you already know, my nightly regiment is a sleeping pill for 3 days when traveling to a time zone +/-4 hours from my time zone. I started it when I was traveling to France for work, as I would arrive and then not be able to sleep, which made for miserable and unproductive days.   I hate pills in general, but hate not sleeping even more and Ken has become convert as well. So! We each took a Sominex and were fast asleep by 830p and slept until 8am&...

Our 5 hour flight to Dulles and our 7.5 hour flight to Frankfurt were uneventful. Neither of us slept, which makes for a long day/night.   We had long enough in Frankfurt to hit the Lufthansa Lounge, grab quick snack and charge our devices and get our 1.5 hour flight to Budapest.We arrived in Budapest to beautiful sunshine, 65 degrees and our driver waiting for us to take us to the Kapital Inn our home base for the next few days.   Albert our host at Kapital...

In a year where nothing has been expected, it was time to do a Ken/Jenine trip that fits our normal mode. The move from Houston to Seattle consumed almost the entire last 8 months and with life starting to settle at our new home, and Ken needing some mileage, we decided to visit Paige in Salzburg. Minor issue…..Paige was going to be in the US at a conference.   Details, details. With global upgrades we booked to hit Budapest first, where neither of us ...

After such a great night sleep the night before, last night was the total opposite. We were both awake most of the night and unfortunately had to be up and moving by 8am to be at the airport for our 2p flight. I stumbled out of bed first and found my left eye almost swollen shut. I looked a lot like Quasimodo, which is NOT a good thing. It was either an infection or allergic reaction, but either way, it wasn't good. I did some intense makeup and tried to...