Congratulations on your engagement! I've been in a similar situation (though with much less traveling and speaking) as you with consulting with US customers wh

Congratulations on your engagement! I've been in a similar situation (though with much less traveling and speaking) as you with consulting with US customers while living in Japan, Malaysia and now China and at the beginning it's really hard to gauge how much time is lost due to the overhead of finding customers, proposals, communicating across timezones and so on...