Coming Home
Jan. 19th, 2003 10:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
major_clangerAll packed up and ready to go. Those who know me well might be wondering what I've managed to leave behind, but I'm not too bad at that in hotels - I
just pack and look around everywhere to see if I can find anything that's not the hotel's. Even though I haven't bought much this trip, it still seems that the amount I have to pack is twice as bulky as when I started. But it's al squeezed in, although I have a rather fat and heavy briefcase now as hand baggage. [Still tiny compared with what counts as 'carry-on' over here. If I ran the FAA I'd set a simple rule: if you wouldn't want it dropped on your toe from eighteen inches up, then it goes in the hold.]
Two hours on a plane back to Washington, then a three hour layover before the flight back to Heathrow. On the basis of our trip through Dulles on the way down to Florida, I just about think that's long enough. Anyone travelling through the US by air should note that security really has been tightened, and since most airports over here weren't built to handle 100% screening of all passengers there are now huge delays in check-in.
Here's hoping that my next LJ post will be an "I'm back", rather than "I'm in a cybercafe in Tampa/DC/wherever and my last change of underwear is somewhere else..."
MC
just pack and look around everywhere to see if I can find anything that's not the hotel's. Even though I haven't bought much this trip, it still seems that the amount I have to pack is twice as bulky as when I started. But it's al squeezed in, although I have a rather fat and heavy briefcase now as hand baggage. [Still tiny compared with what counts as 'carry-on' over here. If I ran the FAA I'd set a simple rule: if you wouldn't want it dropped on your toe from eighteen inches up, then it goes in the hold.]
Two hours on a plane back to Washington, then a three hour layover before the flight back to Heathrow. On the basis of our trip through Dulles on the way down to Florida, I just about think that's long enough. Anyone travelling through the US by air should note that security really has been tightened, and since most airports over here weren't built to handle 100% screening of all passengers there are now huge delays in check-in.
Here's hoping that my next LJ post will be an "I'm back", rather than "I'm in a cybercafe in Tampa/DC/wherever and my last change of underwear is somewhere else..."
MC
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Date: 2003-01-19 08:23 am (UTC)If airlines want to cut down on cabin baggage, which I agree is a nuisance, they need to voluntarily waive the Warsaw Convention limits on liability and state (short) guaranteed times for delivery of baggage to the collection area, with sizable compensation for delays.