hotel disorientation

If you travel enough, you’ll eventually have the experience of receiving the wakeup call and not having any idea where in the world you are.

Among NBA players this is almost an epidemic, due to their endless series of lookalike hotel rooms, and a few have been known to put homemade signs on their desk displaying the city name, before retiring for the night.

It can last up to 30 seconds as you try to reason out the chain of places where you’ve been and are going. It happened to me this morning.

It’s perfectly normal, but it’s really funny that it would ever happen to me in this place– the one location on the planet where I have spent even more time than Cairo.