I'll keep the encouraging remarks in mind. There seems to be no doubt that LED lights wake a person up, but some people think the Kindle is not a problem. However, I say to myself that there must be a light of some kind in it.

But let me ask - if you have a Kindle in a dark room, can you still read it? Or does a light have to shine ON it to make it visible?

I do the things everyone advises in order to avoid jet lag. I go out in the sun, I try to stay up till a reasonable bed time the first day, etc.

The worst time was when somebody suggested I have a beer at bedtime. Bad advice! That's when I found out that I am one of those people who awaken five hours after having alcohol.

Since the DH retired, we are following a new method, the Time & Money Method. We fly from the Midwest to Montreal or Toronto, thus going further east and further north. We stay overnight, then we hop the pond on a somewhat shorter flight. It only cuts an hour or so off the flight, but when my legs hurt and my back hurts, and I'm very tired, an hour is a long time.

If there's a next time, I may stop in Iceland. I like Iceland.

By the way, Montreal seemed to be an unfriendly place. For one thing, I was at a cafe and was being snubbed by the nineteen-year-old staffers. I started talking German, and they suddenly became as friendly as can be. Odd, that.   

Don't forget. Can one read a Kindle in the dark?