Neil,
It's a fun existence for a while. When I think back, I also remember flying off to Cape Town for a breakfast and then a tour of the wineyards ... which I don't remember too much of beyond the 3rd place (but I ended up with several boxes of fine wine in my cellar the next day
). I doubt I could do it anymore - I like my comfy home environment a lot and I've sort of fallen out with air-travel (especially these days). That said, as you can probably agree - it's good to have done that sort of crazy stuff
My times were also in the 90's - back with the dot-com bubble.
Now a wood-oven pizza sounds great, want to fly me over?
Probably cheaper use some spare land here (plenty of it), build a whole wood-oven area with patio, bar, etc and make it myself
Paul