Comments on: The Way Back Home http://www.philosyphia.com/travel/the-way-back-home My Keyboard, My Sword Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:28:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dasubergeek http://www.philosyphia.com/travel/the-way-back-home/comment-page-1#comment-134 dasubergeek Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:18:11 +0000 http://www.philosyphia.com/index.php/2007/04/04/the-way-back-home/#comment-134 "Makes me wonder if the US has suddenly gotten all huffy about passengers on US-bound flights and are making them double-check everyone." Yes. It's really annoying -- Hong Kong's airport, for example, is (like the rest of the city it serves) a shopper's paradise, and the government requires prices to be no higher than they would be in Central -- but I couldn't buy anything there because I had to go through the US security check. All the US-bound flights are in their own little secure section -- which, BY THE WAY, has no BATHROOMS. The same goes for KOA and ZRH... also no bathrooms. "I jumped back on the bus and rode it all the way around to T3 and my flight." Just for next time, if you ever fly United through LAX again, know that 6-7-8 are connected and you can use whichever security line is shortest. Apropos to nothing, but worth knowing. I never get stuck in DEN. I always, ALWAYS ALWAYS get stuck in ORD. I hate that airport ALMOST as much as I hate DFW, which is only slightly less than I hate LGA. “Makes me wonder if the US has suddenly gotten all huffy about passengers on US-bound flights and are making them double-check everyone.”

Yes. It’s really annoying — Hong Kong’s airport, for example, is (like the rest of the city it serves) a shopper’s paradise, and the government requires prices to be no higher than they would be in Central — but I couldn’t buy anything there because I had to go through the US security check. All the US-bound flights are in their own little secure section — which, BY THE WAY, has no BATHROOMS. The same goes for KOA and ZRH… also no bathrooms.

“I jumped back on the bus and rode it all the way around to T3 and my flight.”

Just for next time, if you ever fly United through LAX again, know that 6-7-8 are connected and you can use whichever security line is shortest. Apropos to nothing, but worth knowing.

I never get stuck in DEN. I always, ALWAYS ALWAYS get stuck in ORD. I hate that airport ALMOST as much as I hate DFW, which is only slightly less than I hate LGA.

]]> By: Cosmic http://www.philosyphia.com/travel/the-way-back-home/comment-page-1#comment-126 Cosmic Fri, 06 Apr 2007 22:31:17 +0000 http://www.philosyphia.com/index.php/2007/04/04/the-way-back-home/#comment-126 Wow...sounds like you had a hell of a time getting back. Sucks for Landa to get stuck in DEN like that. Same thing happened to me on the way back to visit from Ft. Eustis last July. Plane got in late, missed a connecting flight from ATL to MSP. I got stuck at ATL for 15 hours! I had to sleep on the floor of the concourse. At least they were nice enough to put her up in a hotel. You think MSP is bad, you should fly through ATL some time...That damn airport is it's own city! Talk about a nightmare! Anyway, was glad to see you both made it back here okay. I'll call you in a week or two so you can come down and check the new place out! Right now we're working on cleaning it up so it can be appraised, which is just a losing battle with the kids. Talk to you soon! Wow…sounds like you had a hell of a time getting back. Sucks for Landa to get stuck in DEN like that. Same thing happened to me on the way back to visit from Ft. Eustis last July. Plane got in late, missed a connecting flight from ATL to MSP. I got stuck at ATL for 15 hours! I had to sleep on the floor of the concourse. At least they were nice enough to put her up in a hotel. You think MSP is bad, you should fly through ATL some time…That damn airport is it’s own city! Talk about a nightmare! Anyway, was glad to see you both made it back here okay. I’ll call you in a week or two so you can come down and check the new place out! Right now we’re working on cleaning it up so it can be appraised, which is just a losing battle with the kids. Talk to you soon!

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