Oh, jet lag, how I missed thee. My trick to avoiding jet lag — at least flying West — is to stay up until it is bedtime in the new time zone. You wake up the next day refreshed and ready to go.
And then when I return East, my little trick is to lie on the couch and sleep for several days or at least an entire Sunday's worth of football.
It's a proven system.
It seems like a whole pandemic since I last traveled for work, but I have been able to get back to it. The excitement — aside from the travel itself — for me always is meeting tire dealers and those working for manufacturers and brands. And, I've found the tire dealers on these trips really come to understand the company whose tires they are selling.
Plus, traveling to new places is a lot of fun. I learned terms, like "nerfing" — giving the vehicle just enough gas to squish the tire over a large rock, like a Nerf football.
In the Bradshaw Mountains in Arizona, I saw a Century Plant, an agave plant that — as legend goes — grows a large stalk, blooms and dies after 100 years. I looked it up, it's more like 30-40 years but still amazing and poetic — like the plant is having its "Rosebud" moment ala "Citizen Kane."