Not Packing Tonight

Posted on March 18, 2020 by vanbraman

Today was supposed to be packing day for my next wanderings. However, The Packing Formula was not used today.

Cliffor, Travel prep, suitcase, travel, packing formulaEarlier today there was supposed to be an empty suitcase on my bed ready to be filled.

Packing, Suitcase, Clifford the Big Red SuitcaseThe suitcase should have looked like this about now as I finalized the pack.

SFO, San Francisco International, Home Airport, Customs, ImmigrationTomorrow I was supposed to travel to SFO.

Triple 7, Boeing 777, Flight to Tokyo, SFO - HND, AirplaneInstead of waiting for my flight at SFO I will be working from home preparing for training to be presented via Skype.

I checked the flight status for the flight I was to be on and it will only be about 20% full tomorrow. I am sure that most of the passengers will be Australians heading home.

I still could have flown, but would have to self-quarantine on arrival for 14 days. However, we did cancel the training several weeks ago in an abundance of caution as we knew what might be ahead. We then started working on alternatives plans which will soon start to be implemented.

I had been looking forward to the trip and knowing that it was to start tomorrow makes me just a little sad because of why it had to be cancelled.

Steven

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Which Toilet?

Posted on March 17, 2020 by vanbraman

All this talk about toilet paper is making me think of toilets.

Since I travel a lot it is always important to know which toilet to use.

Bay, WC, Toilet, Tuvaletler, Turkish Toilet, TurkeyWhen traveling in Turkey I had to make sure that I used the one with the ‘Bay’ sign. Of course the cartoon picture of a man helped to know which WC to use.

Bayan, Toilet, Turkish Toilet, Tuvalet, ucretsizYou had to be careful to read the whole sign though as ‘Bayan” was for the women.

Bathroom Sign, Which Door, Bathrooms, WC SignsHere was a bathroom sign in Shanghai. Good thing that I know that men wore robes long ago. The mustache also tells me that it is for the men.

Bathroom sign, Bathroom placard, Ladies Room, Women's Bathroom, ChinaOf course there was a big contrast with the sign on the women’s bathroom. I like the fan she is holding.

Herren, Bathroom, Door, WC, German Bathroom SignsI think that this one in Germany is pretty easy to figure out.

However I always have to be careful when just looking at a sign with just the German word for Men’s.

Herren is a bit confusing since it starts with her.

Womens Bathroom, Damen, Bathroom Door, WCHere is the door to the bathroom opposite the one above. Looks like we have a peeping Tom.

Again I have to think twice as the German word for women’s is Damen.

I always think of Saturday Night Live and the skits with da Bears. Here we have da men.

Steven

 

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