(04-29-2018 01:52 PM)Lush Wrote:  i used to romanticize and wax nostalgic airports. now they are a necessary evil. got back last night around midnight after leaving for the airport three am tangier time. you do the math. five hour layover in lisbon before philly should have been ample time to make our connecting flight to the nati. a "security breach" delayed us an hour. i was initially concerned i was the cause of the breach. something to do with hash in the rif mountains.

customs really drags down your spirits. it's humanity at it's most pathetic. everyone is pissed off. i'm certainly guilty of it. but what can you expect? you know it's gonna suck and there is nothing you can do about it. makes sense the workers hate you just as much as you hate them. i'm thinking about cutting them some slack even if i think it's lame they chose a career with the tsa. of all the airport jobs that has got to be the worst. at least you can show empathy to the guy cleaning up that dump of yours that couldn't go down completely. what choice he's got?

traveling with a mother in law went about as expected. the shittalking behind her back diverted the wife and i's attention from getting pissed off at each other. that was an unexpected plus. we were bound to fight since we brought our toddler along. a good chuckle can go a long ways

we missed our flight to cincinnati by four minutes. had to connect in charlotte. had to run to make that flight

i told wife it's going to be domestic for the next few years. no further than colorado or newfoundland

I have to show this to my wife. She was adamant about taking a flight to Phoenix and then renting a car there. I told her driving would probably take us less time than waiting at airports and all that ensues and then again waiting for a car after filling out forms. I finally was able to so we drove the 6 hour trip. She still insisted on stopping halfway because she was afraid I'd fall asleep and she can't help with the driving as we were heading to the Mayo Clinic. Bummer, but at least we didn't have to do all the waiting that I mentioned.