The airport shuttle van picks us up in good time and deposits us at the airport without a hitch.
There's a fairly long line at the TSA check point, and we appreciate the much shorter elite security line.
Today the walk-through metal detector is at the far left, but an employee is alternating passengers between it and the adjacent X-Ray scanner. Both of us manage through luck (and trying to wait until there's somebody in line at the X-Ray scanner) to go through the metal detector. No groping "administrative search" today.
We're drinking our coffee and surveying the slim but existing possibility of a bump on both of our slightly oversold flights today. Either way, we're off to a good start.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
We enjoy sharing our travel experiences and providing the odd travel tip to friends, relatives, and visitors.