[GK3]

Appreciate posting the link.
Good article, I'd not seen it yet.
Agree with a lot of the plans going on about managing the travel.
However, as one who has taken many cross-country flights, and continues to do so, at an age when many contemporaries are retiring, some personal feedback that varies a bit from some points in their plan:
-- I absolutely recommend a nap on a flight if you can. Even if daytime. Rather than disrupt sleep patterns, it can help counter some effects of jet lag.
-- I shudder when I read about travel plans that are going to arrive at 4 or 5 am in the morning back to Stanford.  This is extremely bad planning and will have days-long impact on screwing up their sleep. So much better to stay overnight hotel locally after the presumably east coast late afternoon or night game.  Then make the entire travel home all on the next day.  Yes you "lose" a day. But you keep your normal sleep going and there's very little jet lag impact compared to the attempt to save a day by starting the travel earlier, only to arrive in middle of night, and your jet lag is severe and your sleep is all out of whack for possibly days.
-- Further to my prior point, and perhaps goes without saying, but avoid red-eye flights back east like the plague.
-- All this above assumes flying public. If flying charter there is some more flexible scheduling possible as more chance to spread out and sleep more on a charter.

Unfortunately, the older you get the harder long flights are to recover from.  I finally told my employer that if they wanted me to continue these long flights, they paid for First Class or I would find a reason not to go. 20 years after retiring, traveling Tourist class is almost impossible for someone in their 80s and standing well over 6 ft.

[GK3]

Appreciate posting the link.
Good article, I'd not seen it yet.
Agree with a lot of the plans going on about managing the travel.
However, as one who has taken many cross-country flights, and continues to do so, at an age when many contemporaries are retiring, some personal feedback that varies a bit from some points in their plan:
-- I absolutely recommend a nap on a flight if you can. Even if daytime. Rather than disrupt sleep patterns, it can help counter some effects of jet lag.
-- I shudder when I read about travel plans that are going to arrive at 4 or 5 am in the morning back to Stanford.  This is extremely bad planning and will have days-long impact on screwing up their sleep. So much better to stay overnight hotel locally after the presumably east coast late afternoon or night game.  Then make the entire travel home all on the next day.  Yes you "lose" a day. But you keep your normal sleep going and there's very little jet lag impact compared to the attempt to save a day by starting the travel earlier, only to arrive in middle of night, and your jet lag is severe and your sleep is all out of whack for possibly days.
-- Further to my prior point, and perhaps goes without saying, but avoid red-eye flights back east like the plague.
-- All this above assumes flying public. If flying charter there is some more flexible scheduling possible as more chance to spread out and sleep more on a charter.

Unfortunately, the older you get the harder long flights are to recover from.  I finally told my employer that if they wanted me to continue these long flights, they paid for First Class or I would find a reason not to go. 20 years after retiring, traveling Tourist class is almost impossible for someone in their 80s and standing well over 6 ft.