Hello from lovely Newark Liberty International Airport! I had to kill off two other geeks to get a coveted electrical outlet-adjacent seat; now the vultures are circling me, waiting for me to drop my guard.
Even if it was a 20-minute drive from our house, flying out from Orange County is turning out to be a little overrated. First, the folks who wrote the John Wayne Airport website weren't kidding in advising passengers to "SHOW UP AT LEAST TWO HOURS EARLY -- even if your flight is on a Saturday or Sunday!" The security line stretched for half the length of the terminal and then wrapped around itself again -- the worst line I've ever seen, exceeding even previously man-this-is-really-screwed-up benchmarks LAX and Las Vegas. Once it was my turn at the head of the line, I earned the TSA agents' enmity by forgetting to take my laptop out of my bag; they took their revenge by pulling me off to the side, opening up all of my bags, and rubbing their explosives-detecting swabs-on-a-pole all over everything, letting me go with a host of grumpy warnings about next time.
And then I got to ride in the middle seat of a 737 for five hours. Fun! Hopefully our Newark-to-Hamburg accomodations are a little more roomy.
More once I get to Hamburg!
Posted by Kevin at August 20, 2005 01:58 PMHello m'dear! I love you. I hope your flight to Hamburg went well.
Posted by: Shelby at August 20, 2005 07:07 PMSorry, but it'll always be Orange County Airport to me.
Posted by: J at August 30, 2005 10:35 PM