This is not my bed

It's that time of the year, when travel schedules are picking up speed. It seems that companies want to get the word out before the mad year end rush. Although not every fiscal year ends on December 31st, the last few months in 2005 are once again the road warrior's peak time.

According to my schedule as of today, I'll have little time at home, apart from the weekends, and even those are sometimes cut short, particularly in connection with intercontinental trips. So for the next few weeks, you can find me in Nice, Barcelona, London, Prague, Düsseldorf, Brussels, Berlin, Cannes, Milan, Rome, Oslo, Stockholm, Rome (again), Manchester, Zurich, Frankfurt, Las Vegas, Copenhagen, and Paris. Plus the respective airport lounges. You can follow along at my virtual itinerary.

And one of those days, I'll wake up again completely confused, not knowing where I am, or what I'm supposed to do there. It typically takes a few seconds to register, sometimes I need to look at the telephone next to the bed to figure what country I'm in. I wonder how the Stones do this. My itinerary still looks like peanuts compared to theirs. Then again, I typically have to be up and running and on stage by 9am, while Mick, Keith, Ron, and Charlie have all day to figure out where they are, as they go on stage only at 9pm. Ha! Didn't think I would ever write a posting comparing myself to the Stones.